Hello, beautiful readers! My son is working an almost full-time job, so I'm finding myself with more time to play with poetry in the evenings. Still, being the overachiever that I am, I'm trying to participate in multiple challenges. So, sometimes I need to combine a few of them.
The two I've chosen to combine today are Moonwashed Weekly Prompt - Chroma and dVerse's Poetics: For the love of the broadsheet. In MWP, Eugi had given us the word chroma as well as the following phrases to inspire us:
intensity of brilliance
layered in hues
chroma
The dVerse prompt is provided by Heather. She has challenged us to create a poem about newspapers. She gave a lot of creative ways in which we could create this poem, but I'm keeping it simplistic with just the written word.
I decided to write a tanka prose. This poetry form consists of one paragraph of prose and one tanka, which is a poem of five lines with a syllabic pattern of 5-7-5-7-7. Tanka proses always have a title. My key words are bolded and italicized.
Growing up, my father did not express his love in words. He was a military man who showed his devotion through actions. He built us a playroom when we lived in Korea and a treehouse when we lived in Mississippi. He coached our soccer team. He helped us with our homework when we were frustrated. No, he didn't use words when we were children, but sometimes actions are just as loud.
father and daughter
complete puzzles on Sundays
devoid of chroma
such focused intensity
layered in love's vibrant hues
Would you like to try one of these challenges? Click on the links below.
I love how you showed a man who loved his family ans expressed it through actions. You are overachieving, both great! Xo
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