Roberta Writes – Tanka Tuesday and “It’s supposed to be winter” #poetry

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I took one look at Colleen’s challenge this week and though “no way, this is much to complicated.” I went back later and it didn’t look so bad so I gave it a go.

The challenge as I understand it is to write a syllabic poem using a kigo. What is a KIGO? A kigo is a season word used in haiku and haibun (the haiku portion). For more information please go over and read Colleen’s post (in case I got it wrong – smile!). https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/08/22/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-334-8-22-23/

I wrote two haiku about our end of winter or mid summer depending on how you look at 30 degrees Celsius in August.

Plants shocked from slumber

Scorching heat absorbs moisture

New leaves curl and die

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Relentless sun seers

Apathetic flowers droop

August winds churn dust

I am watering my garden every late afternoon. I hope we get rain and there are no water restrictions. The ground is dry and thirsty.

Signs of summer (we seem to have skipped right over spring):

The male weaver has been hiding. I saw him in the tree and spied on him from where I was watering behind the wall.

I discovered his nests about 20 minutes later.

He flew into the tree in disgust at my nosiness.

I liked this orange butterfly shot.

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  4. We started off our summer really dry, then got saturated. Since then, it’s all evened out the way it should. I hope the same happens for you.

    The haikus provoked very visual images. Well done, Robbie.
    And I loved the photos! 🙂

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      1. I found a nest on the ground when we first moved in. I’ll see how to encourage birds to stay around next year when I have my garden in.

        The weather is extremely devastating in most parts of the US also. The last few days were smoky because of the wildfires on the West coast. We had 93 to 100 degrees F for a few days but cooled off now.

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  24. Terrific as always Robbie…as our world’s climate and weather changes dramatically the so-called “leaders” argue and fight over nothing and it just gets worse…I completely understand that weather can change but I’m not naive enough to thank the way we live doesn’t contribute to that change, and if we can do things to counter it why wouldn’t we?

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  29. Fab Tanka, Roberta, even though the dry reality is scary.
    I sure know what you mean about spring just skipping into summer. That’s been evolving here for a decade now.
    Your photos are lovely. Thank you!

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