Roberta Writes – Tanka Tuesday and Sunday Stills #poetry #photography #fondantart

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Colleen provided a beautiful picture for this week’s Tanka Tuesday. Sadly, it doesn’t really fit into a boiling hot South African heat wave pre Christmas period. So … I picked my own picture to write a poem about. This picture also works for Terri’s red and green holiday colours Sunday Stills challenge.

You can join in Tanka Tuesday here: https://tankatuesday.com/2023/12/05/24-seasons-syllabic-poetry-challenge-no-11-12-5-23-part-i-heavy-snow-december-7-20-taisetsu-%E5%A4%A7%E9%9B%AA/

Santa on the beach by Robbie Cheadle

Heat wave Beach

Hot sand burns small feet

Child placed on reddened shoulders

Carrier moves forward

Slight weight causing sinking

Large feet roughly abrading

More poems

Bush co-dependency

Warthog spies

Abandoned burrow

Safe and warm

Residence

Aardvark digs, warthog borrows

Co-dependency

Warthog in an aardvark burrow. I’ve used this picture before but it inspired this Shadorma poem.

Colourful inspiration

Comprised of colours

The vibrant world around me

Decadent paintbox

Providing inspiration

For my writer’s eye and pen

Burned offerings

Overdone flowers

Baked brown and brittle by sun

Diminished shadows

Of last week’s magnificence

Heat’s collateral damage

Fairy nightcaps

Violet lace nightcaps

Designed for sleeping fairies

An enchanted tree

Sunday Stills

You can join in Sunday Stills here: https://secondwindleisure.com/2023/12/10/sundaystills-monthly-color-challenge-holiday-red-and-green/

Christmas robins
Little Miss Christmas Cracker
Mr Christmas Pudding
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71 thoughts on “Roberta Writes – Tanka Tuesday and Sunday Stills #poetry #photography #fondantart”

    1. Hi Wayne, I know, it is a strange thought that its cold in the Northern Hemisphere when its so hot here. I wonder if we get Great Christmas Eagles here. I saw a few eagles when we were at Madikwe. They were silhouette sunset shots. I shared one last week. It was of Wahlberg eagles.

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  14. Your whimsical fondant art always brings a smile to my face, Robbie! It must be strange to get excited about seeing red and green in the context of the northern hemisphere. I would not hate spending a Christmas on a warm sunny beach, wearing a green swimsuit and sitting on a red towel 🙂
    Oh, and I love that warthog image! How scary looking but so cool, and a great poem in which to tell us the story!

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  29. I was still getting white flowering allysum and even some yellow forsythia flowers – but the last three nights it has been below freezing. Lovely images. Thanks for sharing them.

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