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  Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge: Synonyms Only  I have written a tanka.  The synonyms are in red. your word is your bond yet I hear the double-talk  actions speak louder like an umbrella with holes  no relief from rain or tears   ©2024 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved #tankatuesdaypoetrychallenge #tankapoetry #syllabicpoetry #tankatuesday #synonymsonly

  Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge  Synonyms Only & a Specific Form Selma has asked us to write a tanka using synonyms for Mindless and Humdrum .  After reading some of the synonyms (on  www.thesaurus.com ) I was reminded of something my niece's uncle said about the music at her wedding reception.   credit  no pleasing uncle he always criticized her down to little things called wedding music  white bread we just called him  moronic      ©2024 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved #tankatuesdayweeklypoetryprompt #tankatuesday #synonymsonly #tanka #synonyms

Tanka Tuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 331  Synonyms Only words: flow and wave  I have written three, 5/7/5. on these summer nights my only cool breezes from circulating fans flapping banners high the vast crowd streams through downtown demands of justice the trickle tells all a pipe leakage underground my cash flutters off ©2023 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved #tankatuesdayno331 #haiku #zappai #syllabicpoetry #syllabicpoem #synonympoetry #senryu 

 Tanka Tuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge No. 307 words not to use: change and grow  I have written two, as change can be taken more than one way.  This first is a Kelly Lune, syllable count of 5/3/5, invented by Robert Kelly.  Jack Collom later introduced the word count 5/3/5 Lune. Coins in my pocket. So few, yet saved may multiply.  This second is a zappai, 5/7/5. Make a difference. Cultivate kindness to all in abounding love.   ©2023 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved #tankatuesdayno307 #syllabicpoetry #kellylune #zappai #synonymsonly #tankatuesdaypoetrychallenge #tankatuesdayweeklypoetrychallenge 

 Tanka Tuesday #247  prompt words: twilight and hue (synonyms only) I opted to use a synonym of the old use for "hue," that in "hue and cry."  This was the legally required shouting of bystanders to assist in capturing one witnessed committing a crime.  It now means, according to The Free Dictionary, " A public clamor, as of protest or demand :" with the example, " raised a great hue and cry about political corruption ."  "Hue" is thought to come from the Old French word, "huer," meaning outcry or clamor, making "hue and cry" a redundant expression.  Enough of that,  here's my offering, a tanka prose. Tedder, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons A person can only take so much.   Everyone has a point, one point, when the single proverbial straw breaks the camel’s back.   In our case, that break came one evening last summer.   Not with a straw, but with y...

 Tanka Tuesday #221 prompt words: search and lost (synonyms only)   Rummage all you want The misplaced keys are long gone Missing from the bag Toddler playing pulled them out And flushed them down the toilet   ©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved

 Tanka Tuesday #212   prompt words: loose and tight (synonyms only) image Wikipedia, public domain     Drywall goes up Hot and sloppy job No way, bastard I’m too plastered   ©2021 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved Pun-ku: must contain a pun on one or more words in the poem.  Human nature, witty or humorous.  (Not sure how well I did that!) 4 lines with syllables 4/5/4/4 and end rhyme xxaa.   invented form by: https://salbuttaci.blogspot.com/2011/09/what-is-pun-ku.html