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12 month short form poetry personal challenge

Beginning 11 July 2008, I embarked on a challenge to create one short form poem a day for 12 months and post these on my Bigblog and Facebook. This poetry will be a mixture of Haiku, Senryu, Rooku, Tanka, Cinquain, Tetractys, Clerihew and any other short form I come across.

11 July - Facebook Senryu

Forum addiction
Obstructs intelligent posts
Sign up and depart

(c) Merlene Fawdry

12 July - Saturday Senryu

In leafy suburbs
Householders display their wares
Stock up for Ebay

(c) Merlene Fawdry

13 July - Sunday Senryu

Church bells impotent
Against petty bureaucracy
Ghostly echoes of a past age

(c) Merlene Fawdry

14 July - Monday Rooku

White wintered mornings
On city streets
Homeless souls drift

(c) Merlene Fawdry

15 July - Tuesday Haiku

Red callistomen
Smile at thunderheads above
Damp stamens quiver

(c) Merlene Fawdry

16 July - Wednesday Clerihew

Peter Garret
A party line parrot
Whose voice remains still
At mention the pulp mill

(c) Merlene Fawdry

17 July - Thursday Cinquain

Morning
Before daybreak
Silence offers solace
Until caffeine expels cobwebs
Daybreak

(c) Merlene Fawdry

18 July - Friday Tetractys

Age
Stay back
I will not
Let you plunder
The image of self I hold in my heart

(c) Merlene Fawdry

19 July - Saturday Haiku

Trees stand unashamed
In seasonal nakedness
Still life perfected

(c) Merlene Fawdry

20 July - Sunday Haiku

Wind driven raindrops
Write across dusted windows
Rural graffiti

(c) Merlene Fawdry

21 July - Monday Senryu

Behind the high desk
An exchange of currency
He pays with his soul

(c) Merlene Fawdry

22 July - Tuesday Haiku

Dawn nudges the long night
Sun hidden behind grey clouds
Blessings in silver

(c) Merlene Fawdry

23 July - Wednesday Cinquain

Centrelink
Human bondage
Pries, prods, processes
A forfeiture of self
Survival

(c) Merlene Fawdry

24 July - Thursday Senryu

At Highpoint food court
Fast food junkies make their choice
Cholesterol reigns

(c) Merlene Fawdry

25 July - Friday Tanka

A velvet rose petal
Drifts slowly on tender breeze
A column of ants
In industrious order
Carry nature's detritus

(c) Merlene Fawdry

26 July - Saturday Senryu

A lap of honour
For the conquering hero
Holdens slink past in defeat

(c) Merlene Fawdry

27 July - Sunday Tanka

Bluestone foundation
Underpins the faith
The tall spire looks down
As I walk past open doors
In search of my own worship

(c) Merlene Fawdry

28 July - Monday Rooku

Early morning
In an uptown carpark
Courtesy sacrificed for space

(c) Merlene Fawdry

29 July - Tuesday Haiku

Beneath the blanket
A light dusting of white frost
Spring bides its sweet time

(c) Merlene Fawdry

30 July - Wednesday Senryu

At the writing group
Words dazzle with brilliance
Clearing my vision

(c) Merlene Fawdry

31 July - Thursday Cinquain

Sleepless
Long Night
Tossing, turning, tormenting
A journey into madness
Insomnia

(c) Merlene Fawdry

1 August - Friday Tanka

A purple hatchback
Cruises the highway
From another place
A log truck at breakneck speed
Rushes toward their meeting

(c) Merlene Fawdry

2 August

Peter Hewitt
1959 - 2008

Nature's gentleman
Social philanthropist
Inspirational hero
We shared a writing journey
Rest in peace my friend

(c) Merlene Fawdry

3 August - Sunday Senryu

The mystique of mass
Over centuries of worship
Awakens the soul

(c) Merlene Fawdry

4 August

Corporate Government

leviathans of the Styx
crash and burn
betrayed
by the predatory
government of the day

(c) Merlene Fawdry

5 August - Tuesday Senryu

Sweet little dancer
Pirouettes with toes pointed
Legs stretched tutu wide

(c) Merlene Fawdry

6 August - Wednesday Tanka

Empty sketchbook
Endless vistas
Visions, vagaries, voids
A colour blend of mind and soul
Blank pages

(c) Merlene Fawdry

7 August - Thursday Haiku

A murder of crows
Voices raised in vigilance
Defend urban territory

(c) Merlene Fawdry

8 August - Friday Cinquain

Magpies wait
In formal attire
Poise, preened, proud
A strutting of feathered glory
Black on white

(c) Merlene Fawdry

9 August - Saturday Haiku

A blossom opens
Promising health and hope
Renewal of life

(c) Merlene Fawdry

10 August - Sunday Senryu

On any sunday
A priest beholds empty pews
Miracle of faith

(c) Merlene Fawdry

11 August - Monday Tanka

The twenties flapper
In charlestonian fashion
Bobbed, cloched and fringed
The epitome of deco
An era long mourned

(c) Merlene Fawdry

12 August - Tuesday Senryu

Art class on Tuesday
A confusion of colour
Enlivens still life

(c) Merlene Fawdry

13 August - Wednesday Senryu

Words shoot from pistols
As lexiconic bullets
A story evolves

(c) Merlene Fawdry

14 August - Thursday Senryu

Fatherless children
Separated from mothers
Blossoms in the dust

(c) Merlene Fawdry

15 August - Friday Haiku

Sun winks behind clouds
In flirtateous abandon
The earth smiles coyly

(c) Merlene Fawdry

16 August - Saturday Senryu

On a Bass Strait night
Foghorns pierce the ghostly mist
An unseen passing

(c) Merlene Fawdry

17 August - Sunday Tanka

Devonport awakens
To a slow moving spirit
A river of cars
Slow to a sleepy trickle
At the fruit fly confluence

(c) Merlene Fawdry

18 August - Monday Chinese traditional short form poetry

Old man and his dog
On suburban footpath
Young boy on skateboard
A collision of age

(C) Merlene Fawdry

19 August - Tuesday Senryu

Living writer's week
Promotion of words and life
Not for the deceased

(C) Merlene Fawdry

20 August - Wednesday Cinquain

Kamikaze birds
Dressed to impress
Swoop, swipe, swoon
A symphony of movement
Mating ritual

(C) Merlene Fawdry

21 August - Thursday Haiku

A rainbow of colour
Takes flight from red flowering gum
Feathered promises

(C) Merlene Fawdry

22 August - Friday Senryu

Beneath the blankets
Under coverings of white frost
Hope springs eternal

(C) Merlene Fawdry

23 August - Saturday Senryu

The book launch conflicts
With anti pulp mill rally
I read on in hope

(c) Merlene Fawdry

24 August - Sunday Senryu

Surpliced in vain hope
Candle lit in offering
Pray for survival

(C) Merlene Fawdry

25 August - Monday Senryu

Vacant park benches
Homeless ejected daily
A social cleansing

(c) Merlene Fawdry

26 August - Tuesday Senryu

Tuesday afternoon
In the clear light of day
A wash of colour

(c) Merlene Fawdry

27 August - Wednesday Haiku

Wide smile gazanias
Hearts bared in winter greeting
Memories of Clarice

(c) Merlene Fawdry

28 August

29 August

30 August

31 August

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