Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge: Photo Prompt
Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge: Photo Prompt
For this week's Challenge "you’ll be writing syllabic poetry inspired by the following photo." I have written a senryĆ«.
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glory days
so bright in his mind
faded star
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(Jules from Tanka Tuesday) - Poor kitty. I think I recently watched a show about Egypt and Basset the black cat goddess (Bastet was originally depicted as a lioness, but by the 2nd millennium BCE she was more commonly depicted as a cat or a feline-headed woman. Her ferocious nature was thought to have mellowed after the domestication of cats around 1500 BCE.) I actually saw some images of Basset wearing a fancy blue Egyptian necklace - so maybe not so much bad luck after all?
ReplyDeleteA blue collar? If I see her again, I will give the honor due her and call her Bastet!
DeleteGreat poem, Jules! I can totally envision the cat reminiscing on his glory days.
ReplyDeleteYvette M Calleiro :-)
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Not Jules, but thanks! I expect the cat was once upon a time a very attractive statue. I thought of how men (in my experience, men who once played high school football!) reminisce like that and how cats are quite conceited so would do the same!
DeleteAhhh...a faded star. Well done, Lisa! đ
ReplyDeleteThank you. :)
DeleteThis is excellent, Lisa. I love the faded star!
ReplyDeletePerfect....so much said in so few words đ
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