Just One More Lap - #FFFC #tanka #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro

Hello, beautiful readers! It has been another busy week, but this morning is calm and beautiful, so I thought I'd write a quick poem before I started my day.

For this poem, I'm using Melissa's Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #363. Melissa shares this hilarious photo of a dog at a water fountain. I've wrote a tanka for this photo below.

(image courtesy of Kevin Turcios)

daily midday walks

a refreshing fountain stop

ready for round two

my human has a mission

and summer's 'round the corner

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Morning's Masterpiece - #dVerse #Quadrille #W3 #TankaTuesday #shadorma #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro

Hello, beautiful readers! I had a wonderful birthday celebration this past weekend with various groups of friends. Thursday night was spent with family as we enjoyed dinner at one of my favorite restaurants. My work friends and I went to a Bingo Loco event on Friday night and had a blast! Saturday was spent at the beach with my sister. Afterward, we had dinner and then treated ourselves to reflexology massages. And Sunday was spent with another group of friends at Escapology and then lunch. I enjoyed every moment of it and am grateful for all the love shared with me this weekend.

Today, I'm combining three prompts. The first is dVerse's Quadrille #243 where De Jackson invites us to write a quadrille using the word bird. A quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words. 

The second challenge comes from Wea've Written Weekly (W3). Nancy invites us to write a shadorma poem with a theme of sensory details. A shadorma has a syllabication pattern of 3/5/3/3/7/5.

The last prompt is #TankaTuesday's Poetry Challenge. Colleen asks us to write an Ekphrastic poem, which is a poem inspired by a piece of art. She provided the beautiful image below as her example, and I loved the piece, so I decided to write a poem for it as well. 

(Facebook Pages: Watercolour Unique Arts: 7/1/2025)

sun rises

awakening sky

golden hues

repel dark

Gaia basks in her glory

sweet transformation

songbirds sing

harmonic voices

ricochet

off mountains

melodies among the trees

public serenade

dewy grass

wears lake's mist with pride

resplendent

crystal crowns

dissipate with rising sun

morning's masterpiece

Would you like to write a poem for any of these prompts? Click the links below:

dVerse's Quadrille #243

Wea've Written Weekly (W3)

#TankaTuesday's Poetry Challenge

A Crack in Concrete - #TankaTuesday #Xploration #reversecinquain #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro

Hello, beautiful readers! My parents are coming into town to celebrate my birthday, and I am looking forward spending time with them. Although my birthday is Saturday, I have a different celebration with a different group every day this weekend, starting today with my family. It's going to be a busy but very fun few days.

Today, I'm combining two challenges. The first is #TankaTuesday, where Robbie invites us to write an imagist poem. This form focuses on the poet describing a specific object in an image. I chose to write a two reverse cinquains with a syllabic pattern of 2-8-6-4-2-2-8-6-4-2.

The second challenge is Reena's Xploration Challenge #420. Reena shares several quotes and invites us to use one of the quotes as a theme to our poem. I chose to go with the following quote: "Resilience is the green shoot breaking through the stone."

(image created by Gemini)

A Crack in Concrete

rigid

chaos causes cracks in concrete

winds scatter dropped seedlings

sunshine seeps in

seeds grow

firm stem

golden face and petals seek sun

no permission needed

bright sunflower

stands strong

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#TankaTuesday

Reena's Xploration Challenge #420

Stuck in Space - #FFFC #dVerse #haibun #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro

Hello, beautiful readers! Today, I'm combining two prompts which, on the surface, don't really go together, but in my head, it makes perfect sense. Lol!

The first prompt comes from Melissa's Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #362. Melissa provides the image below, and I see a girl who gets all glam on the outside while drowning her sorrows in mind-altering numbness.

The second prompt comes from dVerse's Haibun Monday 3-2-26: A "Life on Mars" Tribute. Frank Tassone invites us to write a haibun focused on the theme of Tracy K. Smith's "Life on Mars." He shares two quotes that focus on mourning a parent. I resonated with the second quote, but zoomed out of the loss of a parent and focused on a different kind of loss.

(image courtesy of Taina Bernard)

Stuck in Space

Your energy called to me before I even saw you, awakening dormant cells in my heart who sought you out like a nomad glimpsing an oasis. Your magnetism drew me in so powerfully and consumed so much of me that I knew not where you ended and I began. A whirlwind of love and passion spinning me round and round euphorically until you suddenly left without a word, leaving me to drift in the darkest vacuum in space, confused and alone. My heart still searches for you like a lost ship seeking its lighthouse, but my head knows your shores are too rocky and seeks a safer harbor. 

uninhabited

spinning alone in space

seeking companion

Would you like to write to one of these prompts? Click the links below:

Melissa's Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #362

dVerse's Haibun Monday 3-2-26: A "Life on Mars" Tribute

February Japanese Micro Seasons Challenge - #TankaTuesday #haiku #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro

 

Hello, beautiful readers! Colleen Chesebro at #TankaTuesday shared the February 2026 Micro-Seasons Challenge earlier this month. I have shared my haikus using the micro-season phrases as well as a few of the others I've written this month.

February 4-8

icicles on trees

winter's trophy starts to crack

east wind melts the ice

~~~

February 9-13

ten bush warblers

start singing in the mountains

peaceful orchestra

~~~

February 14-18

opaque lake turns clear

bright fish emerge from the ice

a welcomed rainbow

~~~

February 19-23

rain moistens the soil

seedlings begin to waken

winter's goodbye kiss

~~~

February 24-28

seasonal dance starts

mists start to linger on lakes

fox comes out of den

Here are a few of the other haikus I wrote this month:

frozen drops of rain

crystallized leaves on palm trees

unexpected sights

~~~

cotton candy sky

from pastels to vibrant hues

night's golden glory

~~~

lighthouse in the dark

sanctuary among thieves

home away from home

~~~

palm trees sway in breeze

small ripples caress calm lake

sweet serenity

~~~

feet pitter patter

vibrant green grass tickles him

joyous burst of glee

~~~

buzzing bumblebee

flits from flower to flower

sweet, delightful job

~~~

chilled flowing waters

trapped just beneath the surface

awaits to break free

~~~

farmland grapes talk

releasing secrets from past

drunken truths revealed

~~~

a bird caws in tree

sun slowly rises in east

cat stretches front legs

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Love Gone Wrong - #W3 #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro

Hello, beautiful readers! Happy March! My birthday is just days away, and I am looking forward to another wonderful year around the sun. As normally happens around my birthday, I become reflective and look back at moments from my past to celebrate how far I've come. I love where I am in my life and look forward to many happy new experiences.

For this week's Wea've Written Weekly (W3) challenge, Christine invites us to write a poem with 26 words, each word using a different letter of the alphabet. Surprisingly, it wasn't too hard.

(image courtesy of @TheDigitalArtist on Pixabay)

a zealous tryst

heart quivered from caresses

didn't believe in love

until joy permeated everywhere

romance grew voraciously

you were my Xanadu

now...only know sorrow

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