This week, Word Crafters, Colleen has selected words to get us going. These words are opposites with many synonym possibilities:
I have written a Tanka, I have used the synonyms, Taut, rigid, compressed, and slack, released, discharged.

Loose & Tight
Tempers pulled so taut
Let to slip through slack fingers
So long held rigid
Released to flow, river like
Discharged like compressed feelings!