View from my window, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to this week’s Tanka Tuesday prompt ‘View outside your window’ (https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/03/28/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-313-3-28-23/). I decided to write down exactly what I can see at this point in time and to use a shadorma poem to express it. The shadorma, perhaps my favourite syllabic form of all. View from my window Treetops. Crows. Bud. Bud.

Home Makar, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to the micro season of ‘The Sparrow Builds Her Nest’. You can find more information and plenty of haiku inspiration on Naturalist Weekly (https://naturalistweekly.com/2023/03/24/micro-season-the-sparrow-builds-her-nest-2023/). I chose to respond in the form of a haibun and to give it a little Scottish twist. I hope old and new world sparrows will find it

Vision, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to the Tanka Tuesday picture prompt. You can find the image (a Monet painting) and full guidelines by clicking on this link: https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/03/21/tankatuesday-ekphrastic-poetry-challenge-no-312/ Looking at the painting of a beautiful garden in bloom, I can’t help thinking about the gardener and this constant effort, this relentless fight to make nature do what

blue, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to ‘The Procrastinators’ Weekly Writing Prompts: Murals… again‘ (https://theprocrastinators58220236.wordpress.com/2023/03/19/the-procrastinators-weekly-writing-prompts-murals-again/). I love writing about the sea. blue blue, and not blue never just blue there is darkness in depth, fluorescent luminescence, the essence of origins this is where all began, in, under, on, before time was a thing and we lost our gills,

Pupa, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to the micro season of ‘Leaf insects turn into butterflies’. You can find the full prompt and explanations over at Naturalist Weekly: https://naturalistweekly.com/2023/03/17/micro-season-leaf-insects-turn-into-butterflies-2023/ I have always been fascinated by the process of caterpillars turning into butterflies. It seems such a totally impossible endeavour and still, we observe it again and again. Is

Spring Pulse, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to Mark’s prompt, the micro-season of the first peach blossoms, on Naturalist Weekly. You can find the full prompt and a selection of haiku by clicking on this link: https://naturalistweekly.com/2023/03/10/micro-season-the-first-peach-blossoms-2023/ This moment of bud becoming blossom seems magical year upon year. I have seen many springs and it still surprises me how

Breathtaking in 14 words, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt. This week: ‘Breathtaking’ in 14 words (https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2023/03/11/weekend-writing-prompt-302-breathtaking/). Sea clicking clacking through shingle Here not here returning breath taking all sorrow a w a y

Nine Mile Falls, by Britta Benson

Just a wee haiku – of sorts – in response to Tanka Tuesday’s photo prompt, a picture of Nine Mile Falls and the mist. You can find the image and all relevant information here: https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/03/07/tankatuesday-weekly-photoprompt-poetry-challenge-no-310-3-7-23/ I like mist. A lot. Nine Mile Falls Mist makes all self known. Clarity through obstruction. Fresh perspective falls.

Budwatch, by Britta Benson

Here’s my response to this week’s micro season of ‘Plants show their first buds’ on Naturalist Weekly. You can find out more about the micro seasons as well as this prompt here: https://naturalistweekly.com/2023/03/03/micro-season-plants-show-their-first-buds-2023/. Budwatch I’ve been on spring budwatch ever since the last leaf fell. The signs, clear, as of yet, elusive. Hope, always stronger

Breaking news: Fortingall Yew to publish tell-all memoir! Villagers upset!

Here’s my response to this week’s W3 poetry challenge, set by Poet of the Week, Selma Martin. The guidelines: write a prose poem that reads like a breaking news story. You can find the full guidelines and Selma’s prompt poem here: https://skepticskaddish.com/2023/03/01/w3-prompt-44-weave-written-weekly/. So of course, none of this is true. I wish! The Fortingall Yew,