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Hello, beautiful readers! For this week's #Tanka Tuesday 24 Seasons Syllabic Poetry Challenge, Colleen Chesebro provided us with three phrases and encouraged us to create different poems using the phrases. The phrases are:

smoldering heat

midsummer darkness

cutting the grass

I decided to challenge myself a bit this week and tried out a couple of new poetry forms. For the first phrase, I used the American Cinquain, which I've done before. It is a poem of five lines with a syllabic pattern of 2-4-6-8-2. The first four lines should build drama, and the fifth line changes the focus.

For the second poem, I attempted a seox, which has six lines (a hexastich) with a 3-7-6-5-4-3 syllabic pattern. And for the last poem, I tried writing a dodoitsu, which has a syllabic pattern of 7-7-7-5. It usually focuses on love, humor, or the unexpected but can also focus on nature and beauty. Hopefully, I did right by these forms. As always, I've bolded and italicized the kigo words.

(courtesy of @aghostmaycome on Pixabay)

summer

smoldering heat

sizzling sidewalks burn feet

humidity suffocates me

ah, pool!

(courtesy of @Schaferle2 on Pixabay)

sunny day

midsummer darkness rolls in

lightning bursts streak through sky

thunder makes music

rain adds drum beats

stunning show

(courtesy of @Alexas_Fotos on Pixabay)

someone else cutting the grass

blades stick to their sweaty skin

while I relish the a/c

the joys of summer

Would you like to create a poem with one (or all) of these phrases? Join us here.