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December 2017, Tanka

The Wise Rise Not Rest

Posted on December 4, 2017 by Leonas Lines

Big Rock in Ocean in Oregon

Tides rise and fall

Opportunities do too

Ocean never rests

Dont let opportunies fall

The wise rise not rest

Tanka

April 2016, NaPoWriMo 2016, Tanka

Sounds of My Childhood

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Leonas Lines

Sounds of Childhood--Tanka poem — Original Poetry by Leona J. Atkinson ©2016

#NaPoWriMo–Day 18–Prompt: Think back to your childhood, and the figures of speech and particular ways of talking that the people around you used, and which you may not hear anymore, then write a poem that speaks the language of that home,

Haiga, Haiku, Haiku Horizons Weekly Prompt, March 2016

Daily Life

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Leonas Lines

Haiku Horizons Weekly Challenge: Week #110 Prompt: Cat

Cascade, December 2015, Haiga, Haiku

Way-Truth-Life

Posted on December 24, 2015 by Leonas Lines

Christian, January 2015, Scripture

Seek to Find

Posted on January 10, 2015January 12, 2015 by Leonas Lines

Tetractys poem about wisdom based on Proverbs 2:6 — Original Poetry by Leona J. Atkinson ©2015
(graphic from SGLY Ministry-www.smilegodlovesyou.org)

Tetractys, a poetic form invented by Ray Stebbing, consists of 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 syllables (total of 20).
Its challenge is to express a complete thought, profound or comic, witty or wise, within the narrow compass of twenty syllables.
(Info taken from Shadow Poetry )

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