Cloud Giants

Tanka Tuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 314

This week's challenge is to "write a shadorma, or series of shadorma, using three to five of the random words provided." 

Words: Scale, fish, month, soup, smile, sticks, slave, property, songs, brushes, rock, disease, shade, cloud, giants, polish, wing, approval, spring, grape, books, comparison, walk, front, hot

I have written four, which sort of tell a story of a sunny spring day interrupted by rain.  I will insist that "giants" is two syllables, even as the "official" syllable counter shows it one.

I

I sip soup

in the company

of bird songs.

Spring arrived!

I smile in my approval

of this warm spring day.

II

Cloud Giants

roll across blue skies.

Welcome rain

gently falls.

Birds trill songs of approval,

thanks for spring showers.

III

The sun fades.

Grey Cloud Giants pass

overhead.

Rain begins.

I run for cover, my books

dry under my shirt.

IV

Cloud Giants

clash high above me.

Light spears fly.

Thunder rolls.

Angry, they toss stones of ice

and blow frozen breath.

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