Hide and Seek

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 Poets and Storytellers United #150: How High is the Moon?

"For your optional prompt this week, I invite you to write about the moon."

I have written a photo tanka. 

photo ©Lisa Smith Nelson

#phototanka #tanka #moonpoetry #poetsandstorytellersunited 

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  1. Rosemary Nissen-WadeOctober 25, 2024 at 3:31 PM

    One of my favourite ways to see the moon! (But then, all the ways to see the moon are good.)
    I had never thought of photo tanka (first cousin to haiga); what a great idea!

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    1. LisaOctober 25, 2024 at 3:33 PM

      The tanka was pure accident! I had too many 7 syllable lines!

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  2. brudbergOctober 26, 2024 at 4:40 AM

    I agree with Rosemary the way you see the moon through branches and clouds makes it so much better.

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  3. Yvonne OsborneOctober 26, 2024 at 5:17 PM

    nice!!! love staying up to watch the moon play hide and seek through the branches. Through the clouds, up so high.

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  4. J Cosmo NewberyOctober 27, 2024 at 3:11 AM

    Photo and words, both lovely.

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  5. Penelope NotesOctober 27, 2024 at 6:35 AM

    So true, the moon's glow peeking mid branches and clouds is evermore mysterious.

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  6. HelenOctober 27, 2024 at 11:38 AM

    Lisa, I love reading and composing tanka!!! This is a beautiful tanka, the bridge line perfectly connecting. Cheers to you.

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    1. LisaOctober 27, 2024 at 12:44 PM

      Thank you for saying that about the bridge, sometimes it's easy to forget that line is supposed to do that!

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  7. AnonymousOctober 27, 2024 at 11:20 PM

    Fun to watch the moon hide-and-seeking in summer.

    PK

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  8. hyperCRYPTICalOctober 28, 2024 at 6:34 AM

    Love this an the idea of staying up past bedtime.
    Anna :o]

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  9. AnonymousOctober 30, 2024 at 12:05 PM

    The. moon plalys hide and seek - behind clouds, trees, buildings . Love that idea

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  10. purplepeninportland.comOctober 31, 2024 at 5:34 PM

    Love watching the moon peek out from behind branches.

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