Saturday, April 19, 2025

The Magic of Candles - #tanka #WDYS #dVerse #magicalrealism #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro



Hello, beautiful readers! Today, I'm combining prompts. The first is the What Do You See? prompt where Sadje provides us with two images to use as inspiration. The second prompt is dVerse's Poet's Pub. Grace invites us to create a poem focused on magical realism in her MTB: Magical Realism challenge.

I chose the image below as it called out to me. I wrote a tanka poem, which is five lines with a 5-7-5-7-7 syllabication pattern. The third line works as a pivot and should apply to the first two lines as well as the last two lines.

(image credit; Marko Blazevic @Unsplash)

leaves fall silently
stillness suffocates the space
night's darkness descends
flickering, waxen candle
magic arrives, fairies play


Would you like to write a poem on these prompts? Click the links below:

6 comments:

  1. You’ve created a beautiful and magical scene with your poetry Yvette. I love this. Thanks for joining in.
    Sadje

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

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  2. This is delightful, Yvette 💜 Robbie

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  3. Such a good take of the prompts, Yvette!

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

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