Roberta Writes – Tanka Tuesday and CFFC

#CFFC, photography, poetry, Tanka Tuesday 1 Minute

This is my poem for Willow’s Tanka Tuesday poem which you can read here: https://tankatuesday.com/2026/09/29/tanka-tuesday84-feelings-end-or-beginnings-9-29-26/

Spring

buds blooming, birds constructing, hadeda ahead – brooding

bright birds, colourful flowers, creating, spring kaleidoscope

shredded petals, beheaded flowers, weaver – most destructive!

CFFC

Dan’s challenge is to share pictures of places people work. I looked for photographs of work places that are very different from my own office. You can join in here: https://nofacilities.com/2026/09/28/where-what-when-we-work-cffc/

People cleaning windows on a high-rise building. They are seated in a open topped cage that is lifted up by a mechanical hoist.
Man seated in a cage on a mechanical hoist. He is overseeing the construction of an outdoor stage for a music concert in Grande Place, Brussels.
Horse and carriage with its driver on the streets of London
Man serving ice-creams from an ice-cream van on a hot day in Brighton
London bus
Carousel with its operators in London
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73 thoughts on “Roberta Writes – Tanka Tuesday and CFFC”

  5. Love your Sijo Robbie, the beautiful kaleidoscope of colour, petals destroyed by the Weaver bird – the irony of creation! I had to look up the Weaver bird as I hadn’t heard of them, how beautiful and such intricate nests…. 💞

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  9. Lucky you Robbie heading into spring my favourite season. I love the sudden, chaotic shift from the vibrant beginning of spring to the messy realities of wildlife – great sijo 🙌

    And you’ve captured some fab work places too 👏

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  13. What a wonderful Sijo! Contrast between the bright kaleidoscope of spring blooms and the cheeky, destructive weaver bird shredding petals is such a clever touch. I completely agree with brazannemuse on the beauty and irony of creation, and like poetisatinta noted, capturing that shift into messy wildlife reality makes the poem so vivid!

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      1. I worked in many aspects of design for the garment industry. In offices and freelance–I liked freelance better because it mostly avoided office politics. I enjoyed designing, but the fashion industry is not at all the glamorous thing it’s shown to be by the media. I have also been a bank teller and worked in a clothing store.

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  34. I love how you brought out the busyness of spring through your sijo and the reality about weaver birds being destructive. I didn’t know that. The ‘flowers beheaded’ was an effective choice of words.

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  36. Right! It’s spring where you are. Terrific poem.

    Oh my, I adore all the job pics. You show some interesting walks of life.

    Thank you, Robbie!

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