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Just One Day

Chris Hall60 Comments

this is my pond just at the moment, there are several tiny frogs around up there

the pond is alive
small frogs are making merry
with some willow fluff

spring dawn is the day
young grasses wave to them
frogs are on the move

they begin to climb
staring at the bright blue sky
they’ll take to the trees

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Written in response to this week’s Tanka Challenge hosted by Yvette M. Calleiro

TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 31, Just One Day, 09/23/25

60 thoughts on “Just One Day”

  11. The cottage was on a frog and toad highway. When we sorted out the garden, we unearthed three baby baths and two pond liners. This explained why we would have hundreds of tiny frogs every year when we tried to give the lawn its first haircut. One of our chickens caught a large frog and went running off with it.
    When she eventually let it go, I thought it was dead, but it was playing possum. My sister used to collect frogs and had over 300 in her collection. Drove my Mum mad as she had to dust them!

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    • My goodness, that’s too much of a good thing with that many frogs and toads. I have never seen a chicken go for a frog, although we had both of those at one time. However, we did have a lovely cat, called Hemingway, he’d chased those frogs all around the garden, but not to touched them, fortunately. Those frogs made such a huge noise at that time!

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  13. I’ve been playing peekaboo with your frogs, Chris, and they won, … I love your pond. I wish we had one., … great poem, and as beth said, … there’s so much there to enjoy, … so I shall leave you to it, … hope your Friday has been a good one, …💙

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    • I must admit I really enjoy that rather large pond, although it needs a bit of clearing up, but not quite yet. Not to disturb any tadpoles and frogs. Soon there will be dragonflies as well. That pond used to be a pool for swimming. Not my idea to enjoy that… and all that chlorine, ugh. It’s so much better!

      Enjoy your weekend, Penn!!😊

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  16. I love this poem! Frogs are cute. I used to love reading the “Frog and Toad” books to my English Learner classes. It sounds fun to have a pond, but here in Fresno it would probably always be dry 😆or else it would become a breeding ground for mosquitoes! 🤔

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  25. Frogs are good luck in many cultures. 🙂

    I recently found out frogs have round faces and toads faces are pointy.

    The frog I thought I found… was a toad! But I do think I have frogs in the creek 🐸

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