life is a struggle
and survival sometimes means
the wisdom to know
when you’re clinging to branches
that may really be fences
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Wekly Tanka Challenge, Week 58 – survival and life; Our Write Side Ink, The Darkroom – Hey, Squirrel
Digging up the soil.
Mounds tell of something buried.
Naughty animals!
Time for walkies the next day;
Where has my other shoe gone?!
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt, Week 57 – soil and animals
Eyes closed to darkness
I lay my weary head down
Dreaming of what ifs
But these are only realised
When awake is the new sleep
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 56 – awake and sleep
Image credit By Sarah
Sometimes the right path
hides in the dense undergrowth;
asking to be sought
and dragged into clarity.
But when it finds you? Magic!
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, #44 – hunt and find (I have used synonym ‘sought’ in place of hunt)
she locked them away
those secrets she told to moons
as they waxed and waned
it mattered not those pages
in her notebook were foretold
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: The Syllabub Sea, Haiga Heaven, Challenge 32 – foretell
Image credit Pixabay
Image credit Pixabay
The energy builds.
White hot temperatures rise,
seeking their release.
Bolts crackle from the sky and
spread as flames across the earth.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 55 – energy & temperature
Image credit MKA Photography
He punishes her.
A blush heats her face. Confused,
she bows her head low…
knows she’s still bound to him but
aware it’s unravelling.
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, heat & confuse and, Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Photo Challenge #175
maintaining the home
with everything in its place
meeting family’s needs
domestic goddess by day
dreams of running wild by night
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 54 – domesticated and wild
Image credit http://reylia.deviantart.com/
though I may roam wild
through the deserts of despair
rain shall drive my calm
creating joyful music
strangled by the whitest hope
By Sarah ©2017
Prompst: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie, Photo Challenge – #174, AND, Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, wild & calm
there are some roots you
don’t want digging in too deep.
sitting in the chair,
waiting for the extraction,
be true…for my wisdom teeth!
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 53, roots and wisdom
ensnared and hopeless
a life hangs in the balance
struggling to break free
what fun the spider creates
when designing his new web
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings Of A Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 52 – life and fun
twenty five children
each one valued and nurtured
with no teacher’s pets
a classroom, a family
helping each other to learn
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge, Week 51 – family and pets
in death it’s too late
then to realise the abject
futility of
harbouring resentment for
the person in the mirror
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge, #39 Mirror and Harbor
Image credit By Sarah ©2017. Mona Vale, Christchurch, NZ
since his death she spent
the days strolling archways of
their favourite park
never realising he was
walking peacefully with her
By Sarah ©2017
Prompt: Ramblings of a Writer, Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge – Week 50, Words: park & peace
animal heads bowed
friends graze the juicy green fields
in peaceful sunshine
anxious, biding time
a name is called but not mine
a reprieve for now
dark thoughts fuel my fears, I think
waiting is worse than knowing
By Sarah ©2017
Image courtesy of tiverylucky at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Prompt: Daily Post Daily Prompt, Word: reprieve
Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
This is my first attempt at Tanka using The Daily Post’s prompt, descend.
Poised upon the step
looking behind and ahead
I no longer know
if my journey is descent
or glorious emergence.
By Sarah ©2017
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