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 Tanka Tuesday No. 266 your cool responses belie your promise to love extinguish the flames   ©2022 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved #tankatuesday #themeprompt #senryu #syllabicpoetry #syllabicpoem #tankatuesdayno.266

 Tanka Tuesday No. 264 Create Your Own Syllabic Form  "Create Your Own Syllabic Poetry Form & Teach Us How to Write the Form" Oh, boy, Colleen!  This one was the most stressful, and I think I had it easy since I hauled out something I worked on a few years ago and never posted.  It was a possible U for the Blogging from A to Z April Challenge.  I recalled it was fairly syllabic, and found that nearly each line was 5/4/6.  So, I worked on those lines that needed work, pleasantly discovered (after missing the "inspired by..." part of the rules) that I could attribute my inspiration to another poem!  After the fact.  Oops.  You know what the hardest part of this challenge was?  Giving "my" form a name!   I guess that is pretty obvious! Also, note that I did search for a named form with the syllable count of 5/4/6, and found none.  I also added a rhyme pattern.  Inspired by The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens (one of my favorites if only for Thirteen Ways of

 Tanka Tuesday # 263 Taste the Rainbow - Color Poetry "This week’s challenge is to choose your own syllabic form and a shade of green to feature in your syllabic poem. You’ll receive bonus points if you don’t use the name: green . You’ll also receive bonus points if you can also incorporate a different meaning for the word green in your poem."  I've chosen to write an etheree , a poem of 10 lines, first line being one syllable, second line two syllables, and so forth until the tenth line has ten syllables.  It is named for Etheree Taylor Armstrong, the Arkansas poet who created the form.   Look! C rocus, up at last! Also see the sunny daffodils, throw off the winter chill, to upturn towards the sun, no more stay hidden in the ground, but garb themselves in vibrant tones, of Nature's patchwork coat of verdancy.   ©2022 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved #tankatuesday #tastetherainbow #syllabicpoetry #theversesmith #etheree # tankatuesdayno.263 #e