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#TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRYCHALLENGE #285 #Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt #4-11 @ColleenCheseboro @gmplano

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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  …

Pieces of colourful fabric overlaid with a cloth butterfly on top

 

I loved the new form of 4-11 created by Gwen Plano, so much that I used it again this week.

The 4-11 poetic form has 11 lines of 4 syllables each, and the first line repeats on the last line.

You can find Colleen’s post HERE.

Here’s my take …

 

Fabric of Life

 

A patchwork quilt

Warp overlaid

Stitches undone 

Shifted and shaped

Nap rearranged

Metamorphosed

From chrysalis 

To butterfly

Freely expressed

Myriad choice

A patchwork quilt

Today’s poem, as happened last week, can be read from bottom to top as well as top to bottom. I hope you enjoyed today’s poetry. Have a lovely day! 🙂

 

© Harmony Kent 2022

 

46 Comments on “#TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRYCHALLENGE #285 #Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt #4-11 @ColleenCheseboro @gmplano”

  1. How interesting that you saw it as a patchwork quilt, Harmony. Now that you say it, it does look like that and in fact, reminds me of a puffer jacket. Lovely poem!

  4. Incredibly clever, Harmony – especially the dynamic between the lines that start with ‘to’ and ‘from’ – that’s just ingenious!

    ~David

  5. Superb! I like the idea of ‘stitches undone’. It leads to reconstruction.

  6. I like Gwen’s poetry form too! Your poem is so good! Your take on Reena’s artwork is unique, but as soon as I read the word patchwork it made total sense to me. Excellent!🥰

  8. I am always amazed at the patchwork quilt patterns. So different and yet some similar. It just depends on ‘your’ scraps.

    Here in Amish country… we see quite a few patchwork quilts hanging on the lines at Amish farms 🙂

    Nicey word-stitched!

  10. So beautiful, Harmony. I love it! You’ve captured the movement of life in your poem – as seen in this image. Well done, my friend! ❤️

  11. Love this, Harmony. Our lives are beautiful patchworks, some tattered, some lace, all lovely <3

    • That’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw it. Thanks, Molly 💕🙂

  14. Excellent poem, Harmony. I love how you saw a patchwork quilt, and how you fit the natural world within the folds. The 4-11 form is really a lovely one to write. 💜