First frost Thanksgiving morning

Posted on Categories Uncategorized

First frost came last night,

Collards, spinach, and onions

snug under cover,

I feel chilly window breeze,

lifting soft chickadee song.

©ontheland.wordpress.com

∼

Happy Canada Thanksgiving Day!  Today I tried out some tanka tips from Carpe Diem:

Waka … an ancient but beautiful poetry form from which the Tanka derived. Tanka is a short poem with five lines following the syllables count 5-7-5-7-7 (or in Japanese sounds, onji) and mostly the first part (say the “haiku” part) brings up a scene, but by putting the second part (say the “response” part) towards it that scene changes. The “pivot” of the tanka is the third line mostly. Tanka is a nice form to work with and as you know next month November 2016 we will have a Tanka month here at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai created around “Teika’s Ten Tanka Writing Techniques”.

∼

Tagged

Published by Janice

My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

12 thoughts on “First frost Thanksgiving morning”

    1. Thanks Vashti 🙂 we probably hear more about your Thanksgiving than you do about ours…there are undoubtedly historical reasons for the different dates but it also makes sense, thinking about the higher temperatures (on average) in the States, to celebrate harvest later…(?)

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply

Leave a comment