Hello, I am writing this Butterfly Cinquain for the #TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 257. The challenge is to write an ekphrastic poem for the below image: So, here’s my cinquain:
Growing It reverberates Deep in veins My heart opens up Unveiling Unveiling My truths Self of yore I speak my mind Tangible ©Kavya Janani. U An elfchen (elevenie in English)
a forlorn crescent glides through palatial clouds purpose forgotten ©Kavya Janani. U If you love my haiku poems, please follow my haiku poetry account on Instagram: haikubykavyajanani (I post non-traditional haiku here)
glittered with sunshine wind chimes weave an evening tune soft, warm, and refined ©Kavya Janani. U If you love my haiku poems, please follow my haiku poetry account on Instagram: haikubykavyajanani (I
Lips parted ever so slightly, she sleeps, her cherubic face Gleaming in the night-lamp. I kiss her slim cheeks, and breathe in her calmness, All the while wondering whether I
dandelion verse falls into a well of grief elegies arise ©Kavya Janani. U If you love my haiku poems, please follow my haiku poetry account on Instagram: haikubykavyajanani (I post non-traditional haiku
I think I am getting better at this.This ‘forgetting’ is turning intomy favorite pastime.I still sauté poems for you,but I always overcook them.I keep unfinished poems to dryin the scorching
I scratched my skin. It bled. But what came out was not poetry. I flowed and crashed into the mighty sea. But I didn’t find poetry. A few months later,
Things That I Grieve For all the lost sleep, because I’d never know what beguiling dreams they held / stillborn poems (aka poems that die inside my disillusioned mind before
I’m a haikuist. To write just one haiku as a response to #TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge 256 is quite difficult, but I don’t want to spam by posting multiple haiku poems.