Here are a couple enchanting tankas from Catherine celebrating spring, which is bursting out all around me in grassy vermillion, cardinal crimson and bluejay blue. I hope you have time to read her vivid verses. Have a magical weekend!
“…seek the resonance that enters a poem only when it is touched by the stillness of nature.”
~ Margarita Engle ~
Spring has finally arrived in my corner of Connecticut! The forsythia have been ablaze for the last two weeks, and greening lawns are dotted with dandelions. Everywhere you look, the world is abloom. For this final week of National Poetry Month, I decided to revisit Margarita Engle’s tanka challenge for Michelle Heidenrich Barnes’s Today’s Little Ditty Challenge. Even though there is nothing still about spring, the beauty of the season resonates deep within me.
Lithe limbs arch and bend
trimmed with a thousand blossoms,
ballerinas,
graced in frilly pink tutus,
chasséing on a spring breeze.
On a southern slope,
columns of bright daffodils
raise their trumpets high
and play a rousing…
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“TANKA” YOU!
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LOL You always find the pun in everything. 🙂
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Gotta make my own pun–if the typos don’t get me!
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Typos byte. 🙂
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YESSSS THEY DOES!
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Brava..
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Thank you!
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Lovely!
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Catherine writes magical poetry.
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very nice poems, thanks for sharing them, brenda –
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Thanks for reading, Beth. Have a great weekend.
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I had read these already and enjoyed them just as much this time. Catherine is quite a poet!
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Yes, I thought her poems were just right for my quirky site. 🙂
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Such a beautiful share Brenda… May Spring keep blooming as she warms up.. xxx
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Thanks, Sue. Catherine’s a great writer.
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Thank you, Brenda!
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So pretty! What part of Connecticut?
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IDK, Catherine?
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Northwestern, just north of Danbury.
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Rt 7!
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Every day! Fortunately, the section I drive isn’t too congested.
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I used to visit Kent regularly when my friend lived there. I remember Rt 7 fondly. 🙂
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