“Each week Carry On Tuesday will publish either a famous quotation or a line from a book, song or poem and invite you to Carry On where words stop. You may use some of the words or all of them either at the start of your piece or within the body of your work.”
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Love is in the air
Floating like a butterfly
Hopeful messenger
Is this real or illusion?
Stinging like a bee, wake up!
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This is written in Tanka (or waka) form. Tanka is an unrhymed Japanese poem consisting of five lines of 5/7/5/7/7 totaling 31 kana (Japanese units or syllables).
Tanka is generally written in two parts. The first three lines is one part, and the last two lines is the second part.
Tanka in English is relatively new, so there are not as many guidelines as with haiku and senryu.
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/haiku/tanka.html
http://www.tankasocietyofamerica.com/TankaDefined.html
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© rgb for “On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea”, 2011
PROMPT:
One of many quotes from Muhammad Ali
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”
"On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea" 
this is a wonderful tanka, Becca ~ the sentiment, your words, the illustration and an excellent use of the prompt. i love it! tanka is probably my second favorite form behind free verse. thank you for providing the links with more information. ♥
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divine.
love the butterfly image.
🙂
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thank you, jingle! I appreciate your support! 😀
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Wow Becca.. your site is really colorful today.. This one is really special.. I read your interview and think its so kewl you have become a celebrity.
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LOL … celebrity – I think not! 🙂 However, I thank you for your generously kind comment!!
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Nice work!
fruits dance on the walls
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Thank you for visiting, gautami!! Appreciate it!
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I like this as much as your Haikus, which I’ve now got the knack of. Beautifull written and your image colors brilliant!
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Awesome, Renee … glad you are enjoying your Haiku writing … I appreciate your support and feedback!
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Fun !
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Thanks, nimue! 😀
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Lovely Tanka, Becca. What a great idea for a prompt!
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Thank you, Victoria … it was fun to do! I participate in Carry On Tuesday when I am able … there are some great and definite creative responses to the prompts each week. Appreciate your visit.
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I love how you manage to put such deep, probing thoughts in such small pieces.
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thank you, Laurie. I am happy to have pulled it off! 🙂
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the poem and the butterfly both are fabulous becca, cant say which one is more beautiful.
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you are too kind, trisha!
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You did well to fit quite a long quote naturally into such a short form. Nicely done 🙂
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Thank you 😀
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Love it, simple and straight to the point but beautiful:-)
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Ahh, thank you!! Glad you stopped by for a visit! 😉
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