Roberta Writes – A few poems and pictures #Poetry #TankaTuesday #SundayStills

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This morning, I have a few poems and pictures to share with you.

Tanka Tuesday

Colleen’s prompt for this week is as follows:

This post from Rebecca captured my attention: The National Gallery 5 Minute Guided Meditation . (Please watch the short video below).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Klxy1Yc-jo%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26fs%3D1%26hl%3Den%26autohide%3D2%26wmode%3Dtransparent

Your poetry writing invitation:

  1. Read Rebecca’s post and watch the video.
  2. Using the painting and the video as your inspiration, please write a Japanese poetry form: haiku, senryu, tanka, gogyohka, haibun, tanka prose, renga, or a chōka.
  3. Be mindful of the rules of the particular forms. Find the forms on the cheat sheet HERE.

Bitter cup

This poem is a tanka (5/7/5/7/7)

How bitter the wine

That fills your personal cup

If you allow pain

And thoughts of what could have been

To grow darkly malignant

Photo Challenge #469 – Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie

The challenge: Use the above image as inspiration for a poem or short story. You can join in the challenge here: https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2023/06/20/photo-challenge-469/

Innovation repression

This poem is a shadorma (3/5/3/3/7/5)

Bright ideas

Multicoloured thoughts

Challenging

Unwelcome

To minds made inflexible

Through repetition

Flat Cat from Lion Scream

Sunday Stills – Furred and feathered friends

Terri’s prompt this week for Sunday Stills is furred and feathered friends. You can join in here: https://secondwindleisure.com/2023/06/18/sunday-stills-fun-with-furred-and-feathered-friends/ Here are my pictures:

The ostrich and the giraffe were very difficult to make.

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    1. Hi Terri, thank you, I am delighted you enjoyed this post. I love cheetahs and giraffes, my favourite of all creatures. The creatures with long, slender legs are difficult to create in a standing position. I am very determined – smile!

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        1. Yes, I remember seeing a dwarf ostrich at an ostrich farm in Knysna. Poor thing couldn’t stand at all because it had short legs and they couldn’t bear the weight of the body. Fortunately, this ostrich was rather favoured by the owners and carers and was well looked after and taken around on a little cart.

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      1. Most of the time, but not always, I’ve found. Some poets read their work way too fast, and for some there is still a holdover of that weird, sing-song delivery that was popular in the ’90s and early 2000s.

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    1. HI Kerfe, thank you. I am always trying to understand people. I love them, and find them interesting, but I never understand general human thought processes and behaviour which are so different from my own. I often feel like I’m on the outside of the world looking in.

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      1. How very interesting, Robbie. I have had the same experience so I explored the question of why we hear words when we see a painting or photograph. It seems that our brains try to make sense of the visual information received. We are wired to recognize patterns and create associations, so when we see a painting, it automatically tries to connect it to our existing knowledge and experiences. I think there is much to this phenomenon. I continue to learn….

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  28. WOW! Just WOW! The poetry, the animals, all of it… You are AMAZING! I love the poems — I LOVE every one of the animals, and I’m especially impressed by the feather details on the swan and ostrich. You ARE the Queen of Cool! ❤

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  30. Robbie, you pack so much into a short post. I love your two poems. It’s fun to see how different your mind went than mine. You took the poem to a new level of feelings and even a moral lesson. Well done. It was so fun listening to Flat Cat. Then you top it off with the icing on the cake, your menagerie of adorable animals. You are so talented, Robbie.

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  34. I love these eclectic posts, Robbie, that include your responses to different challenges. It’s always interesting to stop by. The guided meditation was unique and I especially liked your poem: Bitter Cup. Beautiful animals too. 🙂

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