Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Mondo - #TankaTuesday #mondo #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro

 

Hello, beautiful readers! For this week's #TankaTuesday, Melissa Lemay encourages us to try our hand at writing a mondo poem. This form consists of two stanzas with a 5-7-7 syllabic pattern. The first stanza poses the question while the second stanza provides the response. 

She also provided us with three different options to choose as our first stanza in case we wanted to write a more collaborative poem. I chose to go with one of her first stanzas. Here are the options she provided. My poem is below.



(courtesy of @JonKline on Pixabay)

while the koi fish sleep
in their underwater worlds
what are they dreaming of?

delicious morsels
gently raining down from sky
satiating lazy fish


Would you like to write a mondo poem? Join us here.

4 comments:

  1. Hi,
    I am smiling because I can very much imagined Koi fish dreaming of delicious morsels of fish raining down from the sky. They're relaxing with well-fed bellies.
    Great job. I like your poetry. You might want to consider writing a book of poetry.
    Shalom shalom

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    1. Thank you, Pat! I am hoping to create a book of poetry one day. Thanks for the encouragement. :-)

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

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