Originally posted on Tales Told Different: Image @pixabay Each time the night blooms I seek you in the heavens You are my north star Without you, I’m lost. Full moon’s luscious glow Arouses waves of desire Orbiting with need I need you next to me. Like woodlands of old Our many parts become one Intimate…

Originally posted on Straight From My Heart: Exterminating Boundaries, circle or square; The creative mind seeks. ? Copyright @ Goutam Dutta ? https://colleenchesebro.com/2020/08/11/colleens-2020-weekly-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-190-synonymsonly/

Originally posted on K.: Sea, moon, sails– are words a story? Wonder.  Where. The journey ends.  Compassed and jibed.  Adrift and dreaming.  Betides. ? A shadorma for Colleen’s #tanka Tuesday, using synonyms for circled and squared, and for Sarah at dVerse who asks us to consider boats. Once again I’ve dipped into my art archives…

Originally posted on willowdot21: Jules, of Jules Pens Some Gems selected your words for this week. Check out this amazing list of poetry forms on her blog! Here are your two words: “Circled and Squared” Image from Pixabay HawkMoved inSpirallingTowards his prayMouse faced up to him.Their eyes met silentlyThe rodent knew the cycleOf life and the part would playStraightening…

Originally posted on Tea & Paper: pixabay image wheel laughing dripping tears pillar of life where is the balance? it’s the rhyme and sonnet it’s lost in the encounters always revolving around time the obscurity of the limit the plain interpretation of being the words for tanka tuesday this week are circled and squared, synonyms…

Originally posted on Trent's World (the Blog): The lines always curve Rounded made straight and angled Paths always loop back We might think our debts are cleared But we are always ensnared *** This was written for Colleen’s Weekly Poetry challenge.  This week we were given two key words, only we had to use…

Originally posted on Padre's Ramblings: Dylan Gillis at Unsplash Colleen’s syllabic challenge this week is to write a poem which uses synonyms for circled and squared.  I went with the cinquain form and the idea of circling around an issue (circled) when what is needed is coming to see things eye-to-eye (squared). ? Beating…

Originally posted on Kitty's Verses: Round and round in doubt, Harmonise inhibitions, For accomplished feel. Poetry Form :- Senryu(5/7/5 syllables). Thoughts behind the piece :- Beating around the bush or going round and round in doubt, one hardly accomplishes anything. If we harmonise our inhibitions and march ahead, things may work out. Acknowledgements :-…