tanka weekly #poetry challenge

October 16, 2025

this week’s prompt:

pinecone

write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

#tanka resources to develop your practice:

tankasocietyofamerica.org

Tanka Society of America:

www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

Do they know what “a disincentive is? Who writes up these agreements?

➡️“Technology companies that participate will be paid based on savings from denied medical claims, which has drawn the ire of the American Medical Association and consumer organizations.”

❓Luigi 🤷🏻‍♀️

www.aarp.org/medicare/wha...

Many thanks to John Han for including my haiku in the October issue 32 of Fireflies’ Light.

#haiku #micropoetry #writingcommunity

mobap.edu/about.../publi…

Autumn dawn even
the sun more beautiful
half hidden

By happy accident I wrote a #haiku with "sun," today's #dailyhaikuprompt before coming to Bluesky this morning.
Hope it's a sign i will have a good day!

cutting through
the veil of the night...
moon deluxe

#vss365 #deluxe
#Haiku #micropoetry

#YesterdaysYardBirdsy.app/profile/parsingphase.dev/post/3ljfn54m4ls23" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#YesterdaysYardBirds top 10 🤖 (NE MA):

1 Tufted Titmouse
2 Northern Cardina#Birdsa#BirdsongDetectione
4 Common Grackle
5 House Finch
6 Downy Woodpecker
7 Blue Jay
8 American Robin
9 White-breasted Nuthatch
10 Red-bellied Woodpecker

#Birds #BirdsongDetection <span class="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#HaikuBox

how do you do, haiku crew?
today's #haikufeels + #OneLineOctober #prompt is

eerie

👉 check my pinned post for more info

lol Harry! I love on two of my lamps like they are live plants. 🪴

She's higher now,
the Crane Moon
climbing the pure twilight,
a lantern
mounting the great hill of dusk

@evecastle.bsky.social

#resist

The body will remember kindness before the mind catches up.

#quote BWenz the Pug

This is from an account I follow on Medium. Truly excellent example of creative writing (by an infamous pug).

#kindness

medium.com/@bwenzpug/co...

Composition by Fernand Léger, 1920
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137810

Between owls and roses – Mary Oliver on the meaning of life www.themarginalian.org/2020/09/08/m...

Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.

People Walking in Front of Snow-Covered Cottage - 1890
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14919

Don’t forget.

"The Blueprint with Jen Psaki" podcast is back for a second season!

Each week, Jen sits down with party leaders, strategists, and rising stars who are shaping the future of the Democratic party. Listen to the trailer now, and don't miss the first two episodes dropping Wednesday, October 15.

On Indigenous Peoples Day (which Trump insists on calling Columbus Day): For an honest history of the 15th and 20th century origins of a national holiday and its layers of meaning, read Heather Cox Richardson today 👇🏼
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

And they were sent after the insurrection to investigate, not before it even happened. Sheesh.

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

Write. Create. Be inspired. The #2WordPrompt for 14-OCT-25 is:

Silky & Slide

#Prompt

2025 Sanford Goldstein International Tanka Contest

Honorable Mention

I still remember
the taste of coffee from a thermos
on the trail
now my only companion
a stone in the shoe

Maria Tomczak
Opole, Poland

#tanka #5lines #micropoetry #poetry #tankapoem

#BookSky #AstroSky #MedSky 🧪

Poetry has never been the language of barriers, it's always been the language of bridges.

#quote by Amanda Gorman