Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author

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, not…

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Originally posted on Let Me Tell You the Story of…: Used nest Scrapped for new – Homey This was written for Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday #168, Comfort and Worn. I decided to do a 2/3/2 haiku because it was hard to get the synonyms for those words to fit together in such a tight space with…