
I'm pleased it's Friday for with a half-day today I have time to play in the sunshine for a while and seize essence of moment
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05 May 2023 Leave a comment
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I'm pleased it's Friday for with a half-day today I have time to play in the sunshine for a while and seize essence of moment
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09 Feb 2023 Leave a comment
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Breakfast in Brighton November morning sunshine follows after rain Both providing sustenance for lazy Sunday slowness ©Jemverse Series photo is from the front cover of a First Edition of a book by Antony Dale from 1951 'Lazy Day Tanka' was first published in November 2016 A tanka is a five-line non-rhyming poem of Japanese origin dating back almost 1200 years. Using simile, metaphor and personification, the five lines must follow a syllabic sequence of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7.
29 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in healing, Life, painting with words, poem, Poet, Poetry, tanka, wordsmith Tags: affirmation, healing, Jemverse, life, lucidity, painting with words, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, tanka, verse, wordsmith, writing poetry
With lucidity lightbulb moments came to me from left field this week Caught me unaware but filled the hole which had been growing With lucidity fulfilment left me complete with realisation And relaxed into happy the proverbial clouds parted With lucidity the sunshine returned again and with spring in step I was dancing in my mind Some decisions born of that
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Photo – Jempics
[Tanka is a Japanese poetic non-rhyming poem with a syllabic sequence of 5-7-5-7-7. ‘Tri-tanka is a derivative of Jemverse making, returned to periodically as part of an ongoing series]
20 Nov 2022 Leave a comment
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For mid-November a Sunday tanka I bring Five short lines of verse in thirty-one syllables for your delectation here
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Image – authors collection
[Tanka, of Japanese origin, is a five-line non-rhyming stanza with a syllabic sequencing of 5-7-5-7-7]
09 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in painting with words, poem, Poet, Poetry, Rain, tanka, wordsmith Tags: Japanese, Jemverse, painting with words, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, rain, tanka, wordsmith, writing poetry
And a raindrop fell to add concentric circles spreading into life building its reserve today for when the sunshine returns
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[Tanka is a non-rhyming Japanese poetic form with a syllabic sequence of 5 – 7 – 5 – 7 – 7]
20 May 2022 Leave a comment
in Life, painting with words, poem, Poet, Poetry, tanka, wordsmith Tags: Friday, Jemverse, painting with words, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, tanka, weekend, wordsmith, writing poetry
Come Friday, relax for it is the weekend now Time for more yellow and for some in swathes of sun for comfort in safe harbour Come Friday, enjoy for it is again your time Safe in the knowledge of 'je ne sais quoi' feelings to simply be you and breathe Come Friday, begin again to find that freedom and then reclaim it for it is to have and hold a treasure made for riches
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‘Tanka’ is a Japanese poetic non-rhyming form with a syllabic sequence of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7
07 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in poem, Poet, Poetry, tanka, wordsmith Tags: Jemverse, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, tanka, verse, wordsmith, writing poetry
Tanka week is done
well…when you’ve read this it is
Seven days of verse
each with syllabic sequence
replicated thrice each day
Five and seven and
five and seven and seven
Five lines, thirty-one
syllables to frame each verse
Heralding poetic voice
Tanka week is done
By and by there will be more
This is cathartic
so to it I will return
as it is a favourite
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Picture – ‘Hayase’ by Yoshida Hiroshi (1933)
06 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in Life, poem, Poet, Poetry, tanka, wordsmith Tags: Jemverse, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, Saturday, tanka, verse, wordsmith, writing poetry
Following coffee
my Saturday slow starting
pauses yet again
Cathartic indecision
rules and I’m happy with that
For this is my rest
Snoozing may well play a part
staring into space
and doing little except
drinking coffee and resting
Music plays a part
as will reading and a game
or another snooze
For this is my Saturday
mine to do with as I choose
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Picture – ‘Hayase’ by Yoshida Hiroshi (1933)
05 Mar 2021 1 Comment
in Life, poem, Poet, Poetry, tanka, wordsmith Tags: Jemverse, morning, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, tanka, verse, wordsmith, writing poetry
It is quiet now
and dark and silent and still
Night-time clings on here
determined not to let go
Failing as the morning comes
Light slowly merges
The darkness slip-slides away
as a new day dawns
Witness to awakening
this is privilege indeed
And here to welcome
without fail the dawn chorus
Lifting voice I sing
and join this happy refrain
for morning has come again
©Jemverse
Picture – ‘Hayase’ by Yoshida Hiroshi (1933)
04 Mar 2021 Leave a comment
in poem, Poet, Poetry, tanka, wordsmith Tags: Jemverse, poem, Poetry, poetry blog, tanka, verse, wordsmith, writing poetry
Throughout and shining
lighting night into morning
driven by the sun
solar for the twinkling time
little lights to guide the way
Iridescent here
friend to nightlife passing by
foxes and the like
clamour to the twinkling time
here for them and here for me
Luminescence
guaranteed here night by night
diamond-like it
glows here for the twinkling time
echoing the stars above
©Jemverse
Picture – ‘Hayase’ by Yoshida Hiroshi (1933)