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Showing posts with label Tanka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tanka. Show all posts

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Shadows Transform

touch simply one heart
reaching beyond just the words
make differences
in each day that our words pen
carrying messages forth

this reason to write
sharing thoughts with the vast world
left like shadows of our self
for discoveries by you
leaving impressions, questions

 possibilities
new, changed, altered mark this day
futures to discern
meanings of shadows transform
in each interpretation

as does the sun's light
rising over the mountain
casting forth brightness
night becomes day in beauty
gifts left to grace all the days

Petrina Lesko
September 22, 2011

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Red Dawn Days

sunlit skies cascade
beyond worlds rising moments
puppies playful call
tell us red dawn days have come
bursting forth to share pure joy

© Petrina Lesko
September 2011

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Thawing Frozen Time


This photo really inspired me, resonating life, pieced together to form a wonderful pictorial experience that evolves through the seasons of time.  Normally, I try to write my post prior to reading through others, however, this week I decided to glance through a handful...  I basically came across what I had in mind to write, stated much more eloquently than I could muster.  Thus I have tried to rework my ideas to a different form.  This is what I came up with as a second take.




photo by Tess Kincaid
for Magpie #54
 Desolate mornings
Rebirthing await their time
Grey days loom forward
Lives evolve in changing days
Beginning transformations

Stagnant moments lie
Beneath blue white canopies
Thawing frozen time
Memories reflecting you
Within melted foreign lands

Dream worlds of days past
Long ago seeds sparked this life
Etched in this crevasse
Mourning light nurtures tender
Seeds hibernating beneath

Petrina Lesko
February 2011


Magpie Tales is a fantastic meme, offered to writers and poets by Tess Kincaid, where she posts a weekly picture prompt challenge, and we the artists respond with what is sparked within our being, then share with you and other talented artists.  Please stop by and check out all the wonderful takes on this challenging photo prompt.  Or better yet, offer up your take on the photo.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Morning Masks


Misty Morning
as offered for prompt over at
Creative Writing Ink


hidden beyond fields
glorious hills masked the day

 plethora of mists

gently welcomes spring mornings
days of golden moments held

Petrina Lesko
Febraury 2011

This attempt at Tanka, was inspired by this wonderful photo offered by Olive over at Creative Writing Ink.

Scarlet Skies

Tanka, a poetry form I have never attempted, but as I am eager to learn new forms... One Stop Poetry  is offering small lessons on Mondays of various forms and a chance to be given feedback.  Here is my attempt.

scarlet skies linger
gazing on green majesties
reaching to touch her
effervescant eyes bequeath
beauty within star filled nights


twinkling lighted skies
darkness illuminated
resting within her
open arms welcome morning
scarlet skies lingering still


Petrina Lesko
February 2011