With Thanks – (Tanka Tuesday #293)
Recognise blessings –
Hidden within each crisis
Openings emerge
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Recognise blessings –
Thankful thoughts empower us
Make us feel lighter
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Hidden within each crisis –
Behind dark shadows
lie glimmers of grateful light
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Openings emerge –
As the stress-mantle uncloaks …
Opportunities
Poem prompted by Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Challenge #293. This week, the challenge is to write a Troiku … If you, too would like to join in click through for the rules, tips and future prompts.



Laura this is beautiful and just what I needed to read right now
Thank you 💜
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Thank you, Willow. I wrote it for a post I had read earlier, I’m wasn’t sure whether to share it with her. Your response has encouraged me! 😊xxx
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Oh! I am pleased, and I meant what I said 💜💜
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Really loved this.
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I could feel the words relaxing as each stanza began anew.
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How beautiful! The flow and message bring peace in a fretful world.
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I really like the wholeness of the first stanza and how you fleshed each line out as you went. Wise words.
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Thank you Colleen – I loved Kerfe’s challenge, 😊
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We’ll do more with free style and syllabic forms mixed together next year. It should be fun.
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this is simply a gorgeous write, Laura…
❤
David
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