Tag: Tanka
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Spicing the Pumpkin
It’s time for Chelsea Ann Owens‘ Weekly Terrible Poetry Contest. The theme is pumpkin spice and the form is Tanka. Below is my attempt at terrible Tanka writing. Autumn aroma fills the air with Halloween making one nauseous: too much candy and chasing it with ten beers then puking.
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Voodoo Woman
Tangerine sun sinks behind live oaks dripping with musky Spanish moss wild gleam in agate eyes, Voodoo woman waits ‘til the time is right.
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Someone Else
The writing prompt at the dVerse Poets Club is Fire. You started a fire like never before, and now you can’t put it out. Don’t start something that someone else has to finish.
aka, The Abject Muse 