Summer – Tanka 2025; ThursdayDoors Writing Challenge

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Image credit: Resa McConaghy

   budding white peonies

open summer orchestra’s

outdoor festivals

soulful melodies fragrant

floral notes playing the blues

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Dan Antion’s Thursday Doors Annual Writing Challenge. Image credit: Resa McConaghy.

Published by Suzette Benjamin

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34 thoughts on “Summer – Tanka 2025; ThursdayDoors Writing Challenge”

  3. Suzette, I love how “floral notes playing the blues” blends scent and sound so seamlessly. It feels to me like the flowers are both witness and performer in the scene.

    Much love,
    David

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  6. This poem paints a vivid, sensory-rich scene that blends nature with music. 

    “floral notes playing the blues” shows how cleverly you can play on words. I loved the tone which is both celebratory and introspective. Well done, Suzette!

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  7. Oh, I felt such a wave of nostalgia reading through the Poet’s Summer Tanka. I wasn’t all that familiar with peonies during my northern summers, but I could feel the Poet’s delight—the white peonies budding open like the first notes of summer’s orchestra. What a beautiful image, full of heart and tenderness.

    I wouldn’t dare try to put my own feelings about outdoor festivals into words—it’s such a different experience—but your summer evokes something familiar. A fragrance, a floral note, even a trace of the blues.

    Ah, déjà vu… gone are those days, but how sweet it is to remember.

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    1. I am glad that the nostalgia came through blending the thoughts of summer vibes and music. Flowers seem to sing their own tunes which one can enjoy without knowing the words…I feel.
      Yes, I agree those days are gone but the music in the heart remembers their fragrance.

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      1. Oh, it was such a lovely pause—letting those pictures from my memory box come alive again. Those were the days. Some grow old with them—lucky them. But the music and the fragrance still linger. Ah, the good old days.

        Thanks for opening the Summers Peonie door.

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