Tanka for Magpie Tales #92

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers the following visual for writers' prompt.

breath of Om

hatha yoga tryst

lotus grants

layers bendable

for flexible M

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Tanka for Magpie Tales

Tess Kincaid, Magpie Tales, offers the following image for writers' prompt #91.

image source: Google images, unknown photographer

Cheshire cat

dissembles in fog

Alice scans

infertile landscape

the music silent

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Tanka for Magpie Tales #90

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers this image as writers' prompt.

farmer's child

her hands man-like strong

she hid them

wished for model-slim

I saw mother's grace

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Tanka for Big Tent Poetry

one jar of color
sea glass and slight shells cuddle
her kaleidoscope
window to another world
stirs and spreads in the tumbler

 

Two merged digital photos.

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Tanka for Magpie Tales #63

Magpie Tales offers an enigmatic image on a weekly basis to elicit words from writers. Number 63:

wild flowers blossom
in the distant Pleiades
vivid fractal hues
bright baby stars whirling free
claimed by astral nurseries

 
 
 

Image by Tess Kincaid

 

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Tanka for Big Tent Poetry

From a plethora of prompts, I chose this...Write about feathers and stilettos (but no person can be wearing them).

balanced on the edge

she knifed the tether of loss

strode strong and certain

the crow's feather swept her tracks

removed footprints of the past

Digital Doodle

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Tanka for Magpie Tales #59

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers a weekly image for writerly prompt. This week:

staring at myself
displeased with the puffy hands
the mouth full of thin
he brushed the daylight dark
and dyed me as a stranger

 

Magpie Tales Prompt Image.

 

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Tanka for Magpie Tales #58

Willow prompts weekly with an enigmatic image to draw words from writers. This week:

a sword swallowing
marked the battle finale
tassels set a-twirl
forgotten wars rise again
replay the old times' folly

 
 
 

Willow Image.

 

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Tanka for Magpie Tales

Willow at Magpie Tales offers an enigmatic image to draw words from writers. This week:

black holes drawing in
mock-ups rimed by jagged rims
synapses splinter
shift about with passing time
fragments line the faulty trail

Willow image.

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Tanka for Magpie Tales #53

Willow at Magpie Tales offers an engimatic image for a weekly prompt. This one is #53.

Crystals

fractured icicles
circle the man of the moon
glide back to the sea
days sweep by in hourglass tides
drying pools to sparkling salt

 
 

A Willow Image

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Tanka for Big Tent Poetry

Big Tent Poetry offers a Wordle for prompt. angle, handle, rotate, blade, remote, grind, function, alert, cabinet, float, resistant, darkening    




resistant to peace
blades drop good sense on its head
darkening angles
grinding manners to a halt
malfunction alert comes late

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A fractal.

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Tanka for Magpie Tales 29

Magpie Tales. Willow offers an image prompt each week. Click link to see the picture for this week.



That House

bread crumbs on the step
a small face with mouth of O
peeks out a glass pane
overhead, a cackle calls
one-eyed raven flaps away

 

A fractal.

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Tanka for 3WW

ThomG, moderator of 3WordWednesday, offers the following prompt words:  meadow, erase, trace




thin lines of a trail
crop circles formed by fauna
night's grass kneels at rest
dissects the dewy meadow
sun erases all traces

Digital Photo

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Oubliette for OSI

One Single Impression: Prompt 120: Oubliette

thinking from a box
coloring inside the lines
wide mouth and closed mind
the tea and tunnel vision
creates her own oubliette

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A fractal.

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Flight for OSI

One Single Impression: Prompt 119: Icarus

Flight

near the forbidden
chasing sweet dreams of freedom
she soared with no fear
too fast, too close and too far ~
failed wings hold a broken heart

A fractal.

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Floating for OSI

One Single Impression: Prompt 117: Floating

Minimized Tanka

scents of spring

circle, floating free

pacify

bitter impatience

bred in winter's bed

 

 
 
 
 

Digital Photo.

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Red-Tailed Hawk Tanka

One Single Impression: Prompt 111: Vicarious

red-tailed hawk dances
overhead    circle loopings
plots his killing swoop
covets fleet-foot rabbit style
grounded   running    loping    stride

 
 
 
 
 
 
Image is a fractal created with Fractal Explorer.
 

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Tanka for Sunday Scribblings

Sunday Scribblings offers Beauty as today's prompt word.

a clean mantle falls
through the dark on hills and town
the virgin white snow
reflecting first morning light
autumn's rain-soaked gray turns bright



Note: Congratulations to Laini, Jim and Lips Touch: Three Times, on their nomination for 2009 National Book Award.

A digital photo with negative filter applied in Irfanview.

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Tanka for 3WW

ThomG, moderator of 3WordWednesday, offers these words today: obey, wither, karma

stifled by karma
she tacks hard to the starboard
failing to obey
she staked future on a wish
withered her labyrinth of days



Fractal created with Apophysis.

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Tanka for 3WW

ThomG, moderator of 3 Word Wednesday, offers today's prompt: nightmare, vanity, incubate

sudden reflections
incubate in dark of soul
birthplace of nightmares
echoing those buried faults
shake up vanity and fear


 
Fractal created in MindBogglingFractals.
 

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