On Patience – (Tanka Tuesday #273)
Tested
Facts support you.
Temper the need to act,
Before you gather evidence,
Eschew
Folk wisdom that stymies the truth.
Such, it is salient,
To acquire
Patience.
(Butterfly Cinquain)
Poem prompted by Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Challenge #273. This week, the challenge is to create a Butterfly Cinquain with thanks to Sally Cronin for the suggestion. If you, too, would like to join in, please follow the link for the rules.

Such true words and wisdom, Laura 💕🙂
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Bless you, Harmony 😊
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Thoughtful and wise words!
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Great advice, Laura! I am blessed with an insurmountable amount of patience. Thank goodness, too, because my students would otherwise drive me to drinking. Lol! 🙂
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Ah – such is the life of a teacher! 🤣
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Patience is such a virtue… I raised five children. Sometimes, patience was all I had. LOL! ❤
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Five children … I think you are a saint! 😇
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Thank you, Sarah 😊
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LOL! 😀
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Very true Laura and with so much misinformation flying around patience is needed to get to the truth.. loved it.
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Thanks, Sally; I know a fair few who claim facts when they are just repeating someone else’s opinion. 🤣
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Oh yes, patience — always a difficult virtue. Beautiful, Laura.
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Thank you, Gwen. 😊
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Laura, to this poem of yours, I can only say: Yes, Yes, Yes!
Much love,
David [ben Alexander]
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Thank you so much, David.
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