Colleen's 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 164 #SynonymsOnly

11 Feb 2020 20 Comments

by willowdot21 in Colleen's Tuesday Tanka, Depression, Poems Tags: sadness, stress, Tanka

This week Colleen has given us the words Love and Harmony, to use synonymously.

Today I struggling with love and harmony, I think it may of coloured my Tanka.

What good is devotion

When it causes termoil.

Discord, reins supreme

Agony pulls the heart strings

No tranquil, coexistence

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Part of Colleen Chesebro’s Tanka Tuesday Challenge.

20 Comments (+add yours?)

Ritu
Feb 11, 2020 @ 16:12:49

interesting take, sis! ❤

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- willowdot21
  Feb 11, 2020 @ 16:38:41
  
  Thank you Sis, worrying about the boys 💜
  
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  - Ritu
    Feb 11, 2020 @ 17:42:35
    
    I know… 🤗
Susan Zutautas
Feb 11, 2020 @ 17:05:21

Sad but very well done!

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- willowdot21
  Feb 11, 2020 @ 17:28:05
  
  Thank you just feeling sorry for myself today, well one of my son’s really they are always our babies 💜💜
  
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  - Susan Zutautas
    Feb 11, 2020 @ 23:40:49
    
    Oh I hear you. I have 3 sons myself and yes they’re always our babies.
  - willowdot21
    Feb 12, 2020 @ 06:23:50
    
    Yes they are and I have three boys too, like you 💜
JT Twissel
Feb 11, 2020 @ 18:47:13

Oh my. So sorry.

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- willowdot21
  Feb 11, 2020 @ 20:55:31
  
  No worries 💜
  
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Colleen M. Chesebro
Feb 11, 2020 @ 21:21:03

This is a good take on the prompt words. Opposites are effective when discussing love and harmony. Hope it all works out, Sis. ❤

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- willowdot21
  Feb 11, 2020 @ 21:31:21
  
  Thank you just feeling for my eldest who is struggling, they are always your babies no matter how old they grow.💜💜💜
  
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  - Colleen M. Chesebro
    Feb 11, 2020 @ 21:34:15
    
    Oh, I know. I worry about my youngest daughter all the time and she will be 39!! ❤
  - willowdot21
    Feb 11, 2020 @ 21:57:18
    
    I understand too my eldest will soon be 46, good we need help 💜 but we live them 💜💜
Betty Hayes Albright
Feb 13, 2020 @ 20:14:25

Nicely written, Willow. Understood how things are not always harmonious!
Reading all comments – you’re right about worrying about our adult kids. (My surviving son just turned 49. And I’m paranoid about something happening to him. Have learned we can never take anything for granted.)
Hope you’re doing well otherwise. 💗💗💗

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- willowdot21
  Feb 13, 2020 @ 21:36:30
  
  No, you are so right and sometimes it’s so silly and pointless of us to do so as we can’t change anything or live their lives for them. We end up making ourselves sick worrying while they bounce back. I am okay dear friend how are you 💜
  
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tracikenworth
Feb 14, 2020 @ 22:49:27

Reblogged this on Where Genres Collide Traci Kenworth YA Author & Book Blogger and commented:
Nice!

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- willowdot21
  Feb 14, 2020 @ 23:05:16
  
  Thank you again Traci 💜
  
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  - tracikenworth
    Feb 15, 2020 @ 00:51:26
    
    You’re welcome, Willow!
  - willowdot21
    Feb 15, 2020 @ 06:06:41
    
    I am grateful 💜
  - tracikenworth
    Feb 15, 2020 @ 14:55:42
    
    You’re welcome, Willow!