Tanka

Genre of Japanese poetry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanka.

Butterfly

Monarch on Leaf

In the garden’s shade
on a commonplace leaf, a
wondrous butterfly,
whose delicate wings yet sends
it fluttering through the air!

*Good luck to everyone participating in the A-Z April Challenge! See you next year. 🙂

Posted for the Daily Prompt: Contrast
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Tanka: ©2016 V. del Casal All Rights Reserved

Clear path meanders
through bleakness to storms afield,
whose gray consumes all
but a bantam blue patch, veiled
beyond sight in the corner.

Posted and inspired by the Weekly Photo Challenge: Symbol
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The noon sun blazes,
and all hide under shadows,
but the wrought iron
instead reveals its facets
in intricate defiance.

Posted for the Daily Prompt: In the Summertime
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Sun rose gloriously,
coloring the world vivid,
but, setting, deprived
sky and sea a brilliance – light
singly tied to future’s rise.

Loosely inspired by the Daily Prompt: Turn, Turn, Turn
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Fog swallowed the road,
shrouding in opaque cerecloth
the only way out,
and the visitors panicked
while the locals visited.

Posted for the A-Z Challenge: O and NaPoWriMo
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Like a magician
in mercurial splendor,
the desert’s mood swings
and we shelter or parade,
completely at its mercy.

Posted for the A-Z Challenge: M and NaPoWriMo
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Underneath a bench
a succulent grows in shade,
leaves straining upwards,
fanning out between the slats
seeking the warmth of the sun.

From the ground, I gaze
at inky blankness until
the curtain of clouds
part and the moon glides along
a tightrope, stars just behind.

Today, in sunlight,
I stand just beyond the path;
but for a locked gate,
onwards I’d have run!…and yet…
forth I go whither I walk.