Untitled Tanka - Color Poetry

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 Tanka Tuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 288

#TastetheRainbow

"Hello everyone. Happy September! This week, choose your own syllabic form and a color to feature in your syllabic poem. Think about the different ways you can use color in a poem."  

artwork in author's collection

palo fierro

scant relief from searing heat

with the drone of bees

lavender petals flutter

spent confetti on parched soil

 

©2022 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved


 I bought this painting just this morning, and it instantly inspired me!  For those who count, Soda Coffee (now Travel & Daily Life) does not recognize "fierro" as three syllables.  It is.  It's a Spanish word, and is pronounced as fee-air-o.

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Comments

  1. LisaSeptember 7, 2022 at 5:56 PM

    Thank you so much! I really can't stop looking at the painting. I hung it on the living room wall where I can see it from my computer at the kitchen table. I buy a lot of thrift store art, but this is now my favorite ever.

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 8, 2022 at 5:56 AM

    Jules from Tanka Tuesday; Lovely lavendar. I tried to grow lavendar... not luck.
    Lucky you for the painting find! I also shop thrift stores. :)

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    1. LisaSeptember 8, 2022 at 9:07 AM

      Lavender is a beautiful color, and the plants lavender come in such an array of pretty colors. I have several. I thrift shop several times a week! I share my finds on Tuesdays on my other blog.

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  3. KerfeSeptember 9, 2022 at 4:56 AM

    Hopefully the rains will come so the bees don't disappear as well. The image of confetti works well.

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    1. LisaSeptember 9, 2022 at 8:13 AM

      Thank you. Falling petals remind me of confetti.

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  4. D.L. FinnSeptember 11, 2022 at 9:16 AM

    Beautiful painting and poem to go with it.

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    1. LisaSeptember 15, 2022 at 8:02 PM

      Thank you. It is a real beauty (the painting I mean!).

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 12, 2022 at 7:47 AM

    Beautiful tanka. I love the imagery. ❤️

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  6. Gwen M. PlanoSeptember 12, 2022 at 8:59 AM

    Beautiful Tanka, Lisa. Your last line is extraordinary. ❤️

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