#TankaTuesday #SyllabicPoetry – Tanka Puente

Published on by balroop singh

The challenge of the week is to write a Tanka Puente with the theme of best and worst moments.

If you haven’t heard of the Puente form of poetry, do not worry. Puente simply means ‘bridge’ in Spanish. A Puente poem comprises of three stanzas with the first and third being separate thoughts but sharing an equal number of lines. The second stanza is the bridge stanza and is a single line enclosed in tildes (~) that acts as a bridge between the thoughts in the first stanza and the third stanza. You can use a quote for the bridge stanza which is something I like to do, but this is not obligatory. 

Two Faces

Her healing touch calms
her magical glow enchants
her whispers warble
Mother Nature nurtures us
creates calming symphonies.

~“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.” – H.G. Wells

her wrath is deadly – 
it reverberates for days
she can destroy us
the magnitude of her ire
is unimaginable.
© Balroop Singh

Inspired from the devastation caused by Helena. Thank you dear readers.

Thanks to Robbie, the host of Tanka Tuesday this week.

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42 thoughts on “#TankaTuesday #SyllabicPoetry – Tanka Puente”

  3. Beautiful expressed, Balroop – nature’s extremes. You’ve captured the polarities powerfully. 🌞

  16. Nature is indeed beautiful and terrible. Worthy of our respect. Thanks for sharing the details of the form and showing how it’s done, Balroop. A wonderfully composed poem with a clear pivot. 🙂

  18. Fabulous take on the form, Balroop. I like how you showed the two sides of “Mother Nature.” My daughter lives in Satellite Beach, FL. The new hurricane will end up coming right over her. These storms are terrifying. I enjoyed this form. It’s a lot of fun.

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