Book review from Harmony Kent for Lion Scream by Robbie Cheadle. 3.5 stars. A gripping collection of 99-syllable poems and essays with photos and videos.

Hi everyone! 🙂 Today, I’ve joined Colleen’s weekly TankaTuesday challenge, which asks for us to create a syllabic poem based on the theme prompt: Lessons from nature.  This week, I’ve chosen a Haiku poem. You can find Colleen’s post HERE. …

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Hi everyone! 🙂 Today, I’ve joined Colleen’s weekly TankaTuesday challenge, which asks for us to create an Ekphrastic syllabic poem based on a photo prompt. Reena Saxena provided a piece of her artwork for this week’s challenge  …   I …

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Hi everyone! 🙂 Today, I’ve joined Colleen’s weekly TankaTuesday challenge, which asks for us to create a syllabic poem based on a specific form. This week, Yvette M Calleiro chose the new form of 4-11 created by Gwen Plano. The …

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Hi everyone! 🙂 Today, I’ve joined Colleen’s weekly TankaTuesday challenge, which asks for us to create a syllabic poem based on the theme of ‘Taste The Rainbow’ & Chakra colours. You can find Colleen’s post HERE. Today, I’ve chosen a …

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Hi everyone! 🙂 Today, I’ve joined Colleen’s weekly TankaTuesday challenge, which asks for us to create a syllabic poem based on the theme of ‘The Longest Day’. You can find Colleen’s post HERE. Today, I’ve chosen a Cascade poem. Cascade …

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Hi everyone! 🙂 Today, I’ve joined Colleen’s weekly TankaTuesday challenge, which asks for us to create a syllabic poem based on ‘Taste the Rainbow’ and ‘Weather’. You can find Colleen’s post HERE.   I have chosen a Senryu verse with …

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Hi everyone! 🙂 Today, I’ve joined Colleen’s weekly TankaTuesday challenge, which asks for us to create a specific form syllabic poem. The form asked for is Tanka Prose, and I have chosen to write a Verse Envelope (tanka/prose/tanka). You can …

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Hi everyone! 🙂 Today, I’ve joined Colleen’s weekly TankaTuesday challenge, which asks for us to create a syllabic poem based on “Taste the Rainbow”, where colour features in the poetry. You can find Colleen’s post HERE.   Facets of Life …

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Hi everyone! 🙂 Today, I’ve joined Colleen’s weekly TankaTuesday challenge, which asks for us to create a syllabic poem based on our day. You can find Colleen’s post HERE.   Flash Flood   Carried down the river Torrent of sudden …

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Hi everyone! 🙂 Today, I’ve joined Colleen’s weekly TankaTuesday challenge, which asks for us to create a syllabic poem based on a Theme Prompt from Kerfe: ‘USEFUL’ As ever, we need to avoid ‘ing’ ending words if at all possible. …

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Hi everyone! 🙂 Today, I’ve joined Colleen’s weekly TankaTuesday challenge, which asks for us to create a syllabic poem based on a Photograph provided by David, from the Skeptic’s Kaddish, for this month’s challenge.   Colleen’s comments for this week’s …

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Hi everyone! 🙂 Today, I’ve joined Colleen’s weekly TankaTuesday challenge, which asks for us to create a specific syllabic poem based on the Butterfly Cinquain.  As ever, we need to avoid ‘ing’ ending words if at all possible. You can …

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Hi everyone! Today, I have a book review for an author I respect immensely, and whom many of you know, Colleen Chesebro >>> About the Book: Are you ready to learn how to craft Japanese and American poetry? Consider this …

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