Originally posted on Padre's Ramblings: Stephanie Harvey@stephanieharvey The Tanka Tuesday challenge this week is to write a syllabic poem using synonyms for COMFORT & WORN. Familiar old chair Moulded to accommodate I’m safe and secure Padre A senryu is a 3-line unrhymed Japanese poetry form that is  structurally similar to haiku but addresses human life…

Just lovely! Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 168 #SynonymsOnly Here are the two words selected by Ruth Scribbles, from last month’s #SyllablesOnly challenge: COMFORT & WORN   My Armchair Soft comfort Worn out, threadbare Like me, it’s timeworn Yet happiness lives there relief for my aching back…

Originally posted on Stine Writing: You were here for me every step of the way, no matter how treacherous or uncomfortable you were. You provided me with comfort and safety, a safe place to express my deepest fears and darkest hurts. You were herewhen I needed you mostproviding comfort, a warm shoulder,like an old worn…

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: Comfort falls in moonbeams, sun dapples on water, in the who who of nightwind owls, asking. It sinks with a sigh into well worn chairs, fills the eyes of the old dog by the fire. ? A second butterfly cinquain. It was supposed to be for Colleen’s challenge using…

Originally posted on Annette Rochelle Aben: Colleen Chesebro challenged us with using synonyms only for the words COMFORT and WORN. I chose to use FAMILIAR and FADES. Join us in the fun! https://colleenchesebro.com/2020/03/10/colleens-2020-weekly-tanka-tuesday-poetry-challenge-no-168-synonymsonly/ ? As I slip into The familiar excuses Their strength fades away I am encouraged to change To create a better life…

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: On days like this when the wind is chill and the sun seldom peeks through the clouds, I wrap myself in a shabby cotton sweater. I am a butterfly in a blue cocoon, safe from the world and harm. It’s an odd looking sweater, with snaps as opposed to buttons,…

Originally posted on Tales Told Different: Colleen’s Challenge Night sky of wonder strewn with delights and desires birthing endless stars Orion flexes a dazzling display to woo an aloof and shimmering Cassiopeia, bathing the dark sky in a sintilating sparkle of beauty. But none of it trickles onto the mundane earth below Down beneath that…

Originally posted on Tea & Paper: March supermoon – view from my kitchen The ragged surface Scarcely shinning upriver Under the moonlight An enheartening secret For all her eternity The words for this week are Comfort and Worn, synonyms only! I’ve chosen Enheartening and Ragged, and of course the full moon had to be part…

Originally posted on Kitty's Verses: Spent, Easing, Out of lines, Drawn by others, Drawn by ourselves, push, boundaries; loss, roadblocks, there might be initially, gradually one step leading, to another, fulfilment galore, at last, extending capabilities, realising hidden, untapped sparkle, springing like bubbles, fizzing out from, a soda can, let them not buzz, away,…