A tanka for Ronovan’s weekly challenge.
Painting Sunrise by V. Tomilovsky
beneath this fierce sun
the earth bakes grass crackles in
radiant fever
parches every throat—even
trees shrink aching for rain
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Tag: tanka
Harvest tanka
in the sunflower field
a flock of pigeons
beneath a grey sky
bowed heads heavy with seed
await the harvester
Tanka for coming autumn
For Frank Tassone’s weekly challenge.
Photo©Muffet
listen to autumn
rattle to the ground
from the oak tree
acorns fall bright new hopes
among last year’s dead leaves
Haikai: Autumn rain 2
A second tanka for Frank Tassone’s challenge.
storms coming riding
the last of summer heatwave
leaf feathers flutter
paper-dry—in narrow shade
frog sits waiting for the rain.
Haikai: cicada
For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge.
sun strews
light splinters in tepid shade
heat swells and throbs
like the cicadas’ song
among the pines
Summer tapestries
Photo©Norbert Nagel
summer weaves
blue chicory carpets
yellow tapestries
of cat’s ears sun and sky caught
and spread beneath my feet
Dragons fly
I’m adding this one to the dverse open link night and the ‘movement’ prompt.
Photo©Michael Apel
dancing dragons
flying in stream shade
green as ocean deeps
feasting on gnats sun-struck blips
in cool water light
gems with wings
flash-flicker flick light
turquoise indigo
black gold blood and russet red
myths in motion
hover then flip
land on the slenderest leaf
water-skimming
machine-hot metallic tints
glint in cool leaf gloom
reptile insect
powdered with fool’s gold
in brittle-winged flight
rapid shutter speed
film of prehistory
deep shade
water trickles
dragonflying machines
brilliant
tricks of the light
