Tanka Tuesday Ekphrastic #PhotoPrompt

Illustration by John Bauer via Pixabay

reflections
in the deep pool a woman
becomes a child

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enchanted weald
the tree nymph
become a real girl
love given to false-hearted
doomed to sorrow and pain

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woodland brook
dryad plays shelters
lost faun

Tanka Tuesday

Daydreaming

Carpe Diem Celebrates Its 8th Anniversary, October 2020: #1836 Daydreaming

fall preparations
mulching, pruning, and planting
I dream of spring

with each bulb I plant
a sea of color cascades
across brittle stems
seedpods rattle in the wind
my thought drifting to summer

Tanka Tuesday # 195

COLLEEN’S 2020 WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 195 #EKPHRASTIC #PHOTOPROMPT

Image credit: Unsplash, and the photographer is Wolfgang Hasselmann

afternoon stillness
sunlight dancing with shadow
earth mingles with pine
forest treasures at my feet
crimson toadstool and seedpods

Tanka Tuesday

Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Synonyms only -hint, bold

picking fennel leaves
swallowtail caterpillar rears
bright orange antlers wave
my intruding hand left
with the faint scent of danger

Paradox II

Carpe Diem Exploring The Beauty Of Haiku #1827 Paradox

sakura  festival
lover without passion
walks in a daze
shriveled blossoms
spurned by the bulbul

Tango

Carpe Diem #1807 Two Hearts Become One

love’s subtle dance
relinquishing and gaining
synchronizing our lives
balancing each others steps
two halves becoming a whole

Haunted House

Carpe Diem #1554 Haunted Houses (modern kigo)

rusty gate
neglected garden withers
late autumn

dilapidated house
wind moans through the crack
floor boards creak
moonlight playing with shadows
of lonely eidolon

abandoned garden   
even angel tears
will not resurrect

Matsushima

Matsushima

 

swell of the tide
washing the feet
of forested rocks

 Matsushima Bay
nighttime illumination
captures my heart
autumn colors mingle
with sound of Entsuin bell 

Without Blossoms

Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (17) Without Blossom

neglected garden
briars grow rampantly
choking out light

Life without love is like a tree
without blossoms or fruit.

© Khalil Gibran (Re-done into two lines by Chèvrefeuille)

The Black Bowl

Carpe Diem #1354 The Black Bowl (Japanese fairytale)

tears glisten
on pale white chin
hungry girl
hidden beauty
shadowed by black bowl

unseen bride
groom rewarded
with riches untold