Stine Writing and Miniatures

#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 13, MAY 20th: Stay In Joy

#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 13, MAY 20th: Stay In Joy
https://tankatuesday.com/2025/05/20/tankatuesday-poetry-challenge-no-13-may-20th-stay-in-joy/

 choose one of
the Poetry Forms for your syllabic poem this week and to use a
Kigo word from the 500 Kigo Words List that Colleen encouraged
us to use last year.

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shade of a tree (konoshita yami, all summer)

Under Shaded Tree

Each year that passes marks another year without two men I loved and miss dearly, both beneath the shade of a tree, high on a hill, protected by a stone wall which holds feelings of so many years.

I visit you now
Hoping to hear your whisper
Wishing you were here
Knowing life will never be
The same sort of beautiful.

©2025 CBialczak

16 comments

  3. Our family has had two recent losses… I have lost so many. My wish for them is to be at peace and not to worry for me. I have photos on my wall… and many good memories.

    (((Hugs))) to you. May your loved ones memories be for blessings.

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  7. Oh my… how wonderful (for them) to have lived long enough to know the kind of love you are capable of bestowing on your beloveds. Because you have a beautiful heart and have a right to seek joy, choose joy. And I’m sure they reciprocated likewise. I hope you can still feel their presence blowing in the winds of the seasons at every turn. Beecause you are loved immensely.

    This is a beautiful post. May you find strength in having known love this beeautiful, dear Christine. I bless you. Thanks for joining.

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