Beautiful Dancers

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Darkening days die
with a sigh of stirring leaves
pumpkin and crimson
traveling on autumn wind
dancing for the harvest moon

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Featured Kigo: Autumn grasses, the seven flowers of autumn, quail, dew, traveling, journeys, new beginnings, back to school, darkening days, autumn sunsets, autumn vigor, crows, ripening fruits, mushrooms, grapes, the harvest moon, horse chestnuts, roadside flowers of cosmos and goldenrod. Respect for the aged day. Bilbo Baggins’s and Frodo’s birthday, and grapes.

Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Challenge:

Choose from the White Dew (September 7 – 22) Hakuro 白露 kigo words or phrases (above) and write a syllabic poem. You must use the kigo word or phase in your poem. If you write a freestyle poem, you must include a syllabic form with it.

#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 30, 24 Seasons, 9/16/25
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