#TankaTuesday #PoetryChallenge

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Misty Spring

I live
on memories,
the whistling wind, the breeze,
the mist, the blooming trees
whisper your words 
of love.

*** 

Today
the mist tarries
outside my French window
waving at me, gently
my heart misses
a beat.

***

One more
memory looms,
emerging from corners
beckoning me to sing
the song of bees
with glee. 
© Balroop Singh

Thanks to Selma and Colleen for the inspiration to write syllabic poetry. The challenge this week is to write poetry that portrays movement. Poetry is a moving target; reality is always moving. Choose any syllabic form and write what’s on your mind. I chose a Badger’s Hexastich.

A Badger’s Hexastich is a poem of 6 lines with 2-4-6-6-4-2 syllables per line. It is unrhymed, with optional rising and falling end-words.

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39 thoughts on “#TankaTuesday #PoetryChallenge”

  3. Oh gosh, Balroop. How gorgeous. And I feel a new wind arrived in this poem. So happy for what’s happening. I adore this. Be well dear friend. Blessing you. Thanks for joining the prompt. Xo

  14. I can’t pronounce the type of poems these are, nor can I count the lines/syllables (too much like math – I get dizzy) but I FELT the poems: the movement, the bees’ song, the whispering memories. Beautiful.

    1. I agree, Pam. It is not easy to write within the limitations but I’ve trying to learn new forms through the challenges. Thanks for your kind words of support. 🤗

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