Monday, February 24, 2025

Hibernating Trees #tanka #WDYS #poem #poetry #Ekphrastic #poetrycommunity #writer #writingcommunity @YvetteMCalleiro


Hello, beautiful readers! For this week's What Do You See? prompt, Sadje provides us with the photo below and encourages to write about it.

I chose to write a tanka poem, which consists of five lines with a 5-7-5-7-7 syllabication format. The third line tends to be the pivot and applies to both the first two lines as well as the last two lines separately.

(image credit; Felipe Labate @Unsplash)

not among the dead
just hibernating, waiting
searching for new hope
our roots grow deep underground
we stand strong in tests of time

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20 comments:

  1. What a wonderful take, Yvette. I love the positivity. ❤️

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  2. I love your hopeful and inspiring tanka Yvette. Beautiful! Thanks for joining in.
    Sadje

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    1. Thank you, Sadje! You picked a great picture! Thanks for stopping by. :-)

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  3. A wonderful Tanka bring life to the trees, to energy of growing unseen until we are ready to reveal ourselves, well done, Yvette.
    Regards Mason.

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  4. A lovely metaphor and poem about staying strong, Yvette. The trees have a lot to teach us.

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  5. I love this. It speaks of hope, rest, renewal, rebirth—all I need to do this week.

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    1. All very important concepts! Thanks for stopping by, Linda! May you find the rest you need this week. :-)

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  6. Brenda MarieFluharty I loved your poem.

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  7. I love this poem, Yvette! It's so inspiring and encouraging, and I'm a tree lover and hugger as well. 🥰

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    1. I'm so happy to hear that, Lauren! Thanks for visiting. :-)

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  8. Yes, another way to say "don't judge a book by it's cover!" Well done, Yvette!

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    1. Thank you, Susi! I appreciate you stopping by. :-)

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