An end to hate; dreamed
a dream to defend my race
pride in my dark hue
judged, only by character
not the colour of my skin
(#Tanka)
Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge # 45 – #Haiku #Haibun or #Tanka: Hate & Pride
Frank Tassone Haiku Challenge #16
Check this out 🙂 : Black and Proud (free verse).
Smell The Coffee 
August 9, 2017 at 5:40 pm
I love them both!! (And you) 🙂 ❤
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August 9, 2017 at 5:57 pm
Awwww- thanks Walt 🙂
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August 9, 2017 at 7:22 pm
How can I be part of the poetry challenge?
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August 9, 2017 at 9:52 pm
Just click on Colleen’s link at the bottom. And create a ping back. The prompts this week are Hate & Pride
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August 9, 2017 at 7:22 pm
Black is our identity
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August 9, 2017 at 9:50 pm
And we embrace it thoroughly.
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August 9, 2017 at 8:42 pm
Well done! Your Tanka is excellent! I’m so glad to see you here. I hope you jump into the challenge each week. ❤
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August 9, 2017 at 9:48 pm
Thanks Colleen, I’m looking forward to it☺
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August 16, 2017 at 1:10 am
This is amazing, beautiful, uplifting and inspiring! Well done!
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August 16, 2017 at 6:44 am
Thank you, John 😊
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January 16, 2018 at 8:29 pm
Our skins, the cover of the residing soul.
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January 16, 2018 at 10:33 pm
Precisely
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January 16, 2018 at 10:51 pm
Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #10: Vivian Zems’ latest #tanka for my current #Haikai Challenge and Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge #45! Check out her #senryu for my current #haikai challenge, too:
https://smellthecoffeeweb.blog/2018/01/16/he-had-a-dream/
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