Merry Christmas! This week for my Tanka Tuesday poetry challenge, I asked everyone to contribute a cinquain so I could create a huge garland of cinquain to wrap around our “poet-tree.”
I wrote this cinquain for the Winter Solstice, but totally forgot to post it! Better late than never!
Yuletide—
the longest night
of celestial darkness
brings us the return of sunshine
balanced
©2020 Colleen M. Chesebro
Join me every Tuesday on wordcraftpoetry.com for the Tanka Tuesday Syllabic Poetry Challenge.
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Author: Colleen M. Chesebro
Colleen M. Chesebro is a Michigan Poet who loves crafting syllabic poetry, flash fiction, and creative fiction and nonfiction. Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called Tanka Tuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, tanka prose, renga, solo-renga, haibun, cinquain, Etheree, nonet, shadorma, Badger’s hexastich, Abhanga, and diatelle poetry.
Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems,” and in various other online publications. She’s won many awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly 99-word flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com, an online writing community. Recently, she created the Double Ennead, a 99-syllable poetry form for Carrot Ranch.
Colleen has published a collection of poetry, flash fiction, and short stories called, “Fairies, Myths & Magic: A Summer Celebration,” dedicated to the Summer Solstice. She contributed a short story called “The Changeling,” in the “Ghostly Rites Anthology 2020” published by Plaisted Publishing House.
Colleen Chesebro’s poetry blog is called Word Craft – Prose & Poetry at https://wordcraftpoetry.com/
Her author blog is found at https://colleenchesebro.com where you will find her poetry and short stories.
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I like the idea of a return to balance–especially after this year! Hope all is going well, Colleen.
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We’re down to the last week. Tomorrow we sign the papers for the house sale in AZ. I’m almost packed. We leave January 4th! We’re ready to go! ❤
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Wow! Good luck! I hope all goes smoothly, and you have good weather for your move.
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Thank you! The papers are signed and I’m back to packing and laundry. LOL! 😀
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A gift we all can use! (K)
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Balance and light… my new goals. LOL! ❤
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