Roberta Writes – Sunday Stills: Rivers, CFFC: Monochrome, Pure Haiku, and Tanka Tuesday #poetry #fondant art

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This post relates to five challenges, two are photography challenges and three are poetry challenges.

The challenges you can join in on WordPress are as follows:

Terri from Second Wind Leisure Perspectives Sunday Stills Challenge for Rivers. You can join in here: https://secondwindleisure.com/2023/05/28/sunday-stills-down-by-the-water-a-river-runs-through-it/

Cee’s CFFC challenge: Colorful Monochrome. You can join in here: https://ceenphotography.com/2023/05/30/cffc-colorful-monochromes/

Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday challenge: Spirit animal. You can join in here: https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/05/30/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-322-5-30-2023-spirit-animal-poetry/

Here are two of my cake art displays relating to rivers:

The dried river bed from Sir Chocolate and the Condensed Milk River story and cookbook
Sleeping boy on a raft

The following picture is cake art in monochrome:

Jack Frost from Haunted Halloween Holiday

Tanka Tuesday

This week, Colleen has provided a quiz which each poet must take to determine their spirit animal. The poems should be about the spirit animal.

My spirit animal is a butterfly.

Love’s price

Butterfly

Wings spotted with blood

Reminder

Of battles

Often fought and sometimes won

The high price of love

Strength in fragility

Butterfly

Delicate looking

Graceful

Wings fragile

Yet sturdy and flexible

Enabling fast flight

by Robbie Cheadle

Lastly, I entered five poems in Freya Pickard’s Pure Haiku Orchid challenge and three were selected for publication. This is the link to the first haiku: https://purehaiku.wordpress.com/2023/05/30/5-30-4/

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85 thoughts on “Roberta Writes – Sunday Stills: Rivers, CFFC: Monochrome, Pure Haiku, and Tanka Tuesday #poetry #fondant art”

  6. Nice way to combine five challenges into one post, Robbie! I always love your fondant creations and the two cake art river displays are delightful. A butterfly is a ver appropriate spirit creature for you! We have a lot of butterflies visiting us this week, so your poems are perfect to read and contemplate their lives!

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  7. As always, I love your cake art. And I read your first poem at Pure Haiku–lovely!
    I seem to be a butterfly spirit too, at least for the moment. I’ll be posting my poem tomorrow. I think it’s a good spirit to be. (K)

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    1. Yes, that is true. I like the impermanence of cake art although I always take pictures now. I didn’t used to, sadly. I am posting some of my creations for these photograph challenges. I have lots of pictures and creations to share.

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          1. Butterflies must be strong for their size, to survive the battering of winds. They are beautiful and they are found almost all over the world – like your words and works.

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  28. Robbie your cakes are gorgeous. I especially like the last (monochrome) one. You call attention to 2 polar attributes about butterflies, their fragile wings that are so strong when put to use. I think of monarchs and the miles they migrate and am amazed.

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  31. Congratulations on your success with the haiku, which is lovely. As for your fondant scenes… they are wonderful. And that monochrome cake is absolutely stunning – it must take hours to construct those sugar roses! Thank you for sharing these – they are a joy:)).

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    1. The flowers do take a long time to make. I recently made a replica of van Gogh’s Sunflower Field painting as a cake for my husband’s birthday. Each sunflower took about 6 hours to make. I do find it relaxing and the results are always pleasing. Thanks for visiting.

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  32. What a full post! Beautiful edible rivers, Robbie, and lovely butterfly poems (even though the first feels tragic). Congrats on your publication at Purehaiku too. I’ll have to keep an eye out for more of your poems there. I hope you and yours are doing well this week. ❤ ❤ ❤

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  35. What a fun post. I always love seeing your wonderful cake art. I did the quiz and I am a turtle, which is interesting. Your butterfly poems are wonderful and brought about some deep thinking. Have a great week Robbie.

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