26 Jul 2019
by Jem Croucher
in Beach, Life, photo, poem, Poet, Poetry, Sussex, tanka, wordsmith
Tags: 5lnes, beach, Jemverse, Lancing, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, relaxation, sea, Sussex, tanka, wordsmith, writing poetry
Once again relaxed
Lancing Beach does that for me
Every single time
The sound of the moving sea
The sight of the ocean waves
And I’m in my element
Completely relaxed
Listening to the ocean
I sit here for hours
Reading for a little while
Writing for a while longer
Here outside Hut 101
Relaxation here
This is my perfect haven
Little home from home
Where I can quite simply be
Where I can quite simply feel
The simplicity of life
©Jemverse
Photo – Lancing Beach, West Sussex, looking East – Jempics
A tanka is a 31 syllable 5 line Japanese poem with a syllabic sequence of 5-7-5-7-7
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17 Jan 2019
by Jem Croucher
in beauty, Life, poem, Poet, Poetry, tanka
Tags: 5 lines, Jemverse, light, morning, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, tanka, wordsmith, writing poetry
Yes, it is morning
But time clings to night time still
and my pen falters
Caught between a moment there
the clarity hides behind
Daylight hides away
Its face obscured by darkness
and my pen falters
Unsure of the words that come
and can their truth be trusted
The beauty shines through
A small pink of light lurking
Confident my pen
Finds the words and hold them true
as a torch in the darkness
©Jemverse
Photo – Jempics
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22 Dec 2018
by Jem Croucher
in poem, Poet, Poetry, tanka
Tags: Christmas, festive, Jemverse, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, tanka, wordsmith, writing poetry, Yuletide
All decorations
up by first of December
Christmas is coming
Though earlier every year
commerce would have us believe
No bah and humbug
despite my reservations
As into spirit
flowing with the tinsel here
my heart goes to the yuletide
And into the fray
firmly with gusto I tread
‘Ho ho ho’ sung loud
I am the voice of Christmas
Seasons greetings one and all
©Jemverse
Photo – Jempics
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04 Dec 2018
by Jem Croucher
in Life, poem, Poet, Poetry, tanka
Tags: 5lines, bright moments, Jemverse, life, poem, poet, Poetry, poetry blog, tanka, wordcraft, words, wordsmith, writing poetry
To start this series
in thirty-one syllables
Japanese Tanka
A short song to bring you joy
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So here are first lines
Crafted by the poet’s hand
Found and captured here
To form and syntax structured
Voicing life in five short lines
And I play with words
Crafting here my poetry
for you the reader
To take, ponder and reflect
for life’s many bright moments
©Jemverse
Photo – Google images
Tanka – Japanese 31 syllable poem of 5 lines with a syllabic sequence of 5-7-5-7-7
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31 Dec 2017
by Jem Croucher
in Life, photo, Poetry, tanka
Tags: 2017, Jemverse, New Year's Eve, poem, Poetry, poetry blog, tanka, writing poetry
Twenty seventeen
And with Auld Lang Syne tonight
For sake of old times
We’ll take a cup of kindness
Old acquaintances renewed
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Photo – Jempics
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02 Aug 2017
by Jem Croucher
in haiku, Poet, Poetry, tanka
Tags: haiku, Japanese, Jemverse, poem, Poetry, poetry blog, tanka, writing poetry
Stuck in a Haiku?
Feel that you’ve nowhere to go?
Why not try Tanka?
Two extra lines to play with
and thirty-one syllables
©Jemverse
Photo – Haiku from ‘Kito’ (1740 – 1788) – Jempics
Inspired by a blog posting on 30 July from ‘The Reluctant Poet‘
Both ‘haiku’ and ‘tanka’ are Japanese poetry forms. Haiku comprises three lines with a syllabic sequence of 5,7,5; Tanka comprises five lines with a syllabic sequence of 5,7,5,7,7
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