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bilingual, En español, Spanish Culture and Language, writing

November 2021 Poetry Challenge

Time for the monthly poetry challenge. In November, we’ll write Japanese tanka poetry with a celestial theme: solar system, galaxy, dark matter, stars, planets, sun, whichever opens your eyes in wonder. The format of a tanka is five lines; the number of syllables is 5, 7, 5, 7 then 7 again. Reto poético de noviembre […]

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bilingual, En español, Spanish Culture and Language, writing

November Poetry Challenge/Reto poetico de noviembre

Thank you for your interest in the Poetry Challenge: Tanka Tribute! This month we have two tanka tributes from friends and two of my own. We’ll start with tribute for a public figure from the movies by a Spanish blogger friend: ¡Gracias por su interés en el Reto Poetico: Tributo Tanka! Este mes tenemos dos […]

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bilingual, Mexico, Spanish Culture and Language

Poetry Challenge: Tanka Tribute/Reto Poetico: Tributo Tanka

November Poetry Challenge This month’s poetry challenge is linked with an important November holiday in Mexico and throughout Central and South America, Día de los muertos. In our household each year we honor international figures in politics, history, art, science and social change. (en español abajo) I post paperboard gravestones in their honor for All […]

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Spanish Culture and Language, writing

Tanka Contest Winners/Ganadores del Concurso Tanka

Congratulations to all the poets who entered the Fake Flamenco Tanka Contest! We were honored with entries from three countries; Mexico, England and Puerto Rico. I have translated all three poems to make them more accessible to both Spanish and English speakers. One is a tribute to our current moment in history, the second to […]

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bilingual, En español, Spanish Culture and Language, writing

Tanka Poetry Contest / Concurso de Poesía Tanka

Hola Poetas, listos para escribir un poema tanka? (post in English below) Según lo que leo, el esquema de un poema tanka es por sílabas: 5-7-5-7-7 Un poema mío, cómo ejemplo: Las peonias amigas del verano su fragrancia es una meditación y sólo existe el jardín. (translation below) Tienen hasta el lunes que viene, el […]

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my life in sevilla

A Praia das Almas e outras histórias

Escrever um livro é criar um mundo, uma realidade com regras próprias que podem ou não ser espelhadas nas regras da nossa realidade objetiva. Quando criei "A Praia das Almas", mais de 20 anos atrás não pensei que meu mundo se tornaria tão vasto e o que era um único livro tornou-se três volumes. Aqui no blog vou deixar os links para os livros, além de trazer coisas sobre os personagens que não couberam na história principal. Caractéristicas, confissões, microcontos...

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