Tanaga

Steady pen and paper meet

Combining in a grand feat

Leaving behind scenes replete

With magic and wonder sweet

The Tanaga is the Filipino version of the haiku, which is written with four rhyming lines of seven syllables each.

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Mango Market

Some choose mangos by the smell

But the yellow scent of heaven

Is all the same to me

I go by feel; Goldilocks-like

Too firm, too squishy, just right

Weighed out and priced

My pesos for a taste of paradise

Backwards Poem

At long last the kite flies free!

He loosens it from the tree

A ladder fetched and leaned up

Her cries heard by a kind grownup

The girl looks up through the leaves in tears

Higher and higher! 'Til into the tree it steers

Dipping and diving and soaring!

To the park she races clutching the string.

All set up and ready for flight

Down from the shelf comes the glorious kite

Today's poem comes from the NaPoWriMo prompt to write a poem backwards. So if you start at the end of the poem and read it from bottom to top, it will actually make sense.