
This week for my Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge, I used alter for change, and resisting for deny.

In the early hours—
before dawn’s pink light explodes,
I alter my view
of the cosmos in my mind
resisting a mundane life.

Searching for magic
amongst all the disasters
thrown at me daily—
finding the humor inside,
by learning to love myself.
© 2018 Colleen M. Chesebro
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Author: Colleen M. Chesebro
Colleen M. Chesebro is an American Poet who loves crafting paranormal fantasy and magical realism, cross-genre flash fiction, syllabic poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called Tanka Tuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, tanka prose, renga, solo-renga, haibun, cinquain, Etheree, nonet, and shadorma poetry.
Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in the Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, and in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems.” She’s won numerous awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com. In 2020, she won first place in the Carrot Ranch Folk Tale or Fable category, with her story called “Why Wolf Howls at the Moon.”
Colleen is a Sister of the Fey, where she pursues a pagan path through her writing. When she is not writing, she is reading. She also loves gardening and crocheting old-fashioned doilies into works of art.
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Doubly beautiful tankas 💜
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Thanks, Ritu. It kind of fell out of me. LOL! ❤
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I know that feeling!!!!
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LOL! 😀
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Beautiful, Colleen!
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Thanks, Erika. ❤ Happy Weekend. 😀
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Thank you very much and for you too, Colleen 😊
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Love these, Colleen!
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Thank you, Merril. They popped out of my head. 😀 ❤
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I wrote my cinquain quickly, too, today. Sometimes the muse strikes. 🙂
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I love when that happens. I always feel more in tune with my feelings. 😀
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🙂
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Good advice! (K)
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Thanks. 😀
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Good advice!
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LOL! 😀
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It’s funny what WordPress is doing these days…it kept saying it couldn’t post my comment and then it did it twice!!
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They are working on adding the new Gutenberg editor. It’s going to be a mess! 😂💜
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beautiful piece of advise…..
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Thank you. ❤️
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A stunningly beautiful double tanka. 🌼
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Thanks so much, Brigid. I love when the words erupt from within. ❤️
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Beautiful, sister. ❤
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Thanks, Sis. ❤
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Heartfelt and beautifully said Sis ❤
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Thanks, Sis. These poems tumbled out of me yesterday. I like to think of it as “soul talk.” ❤
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I know exactly what you mean. ❤
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It’s inspiration and creativity all wrapped up in emotions. Poetry is perfect for the empathic soul. ❤
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That’s us! ❤
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Definitely. ❤
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The magical of love and light casts out all the doubt and disasters. It’s powerful, Colleen! 🙂
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Thank you, Miriam. Sometimes our soul speaks out through poetry. I’m thrilled you love these Tanka. ❤
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Yes, Colleen, I love them. ❤ I find my soul is free in my garden. 🙂
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So beautiful!
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Thanks, Linda. ❤
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❤
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Double tanka and doubly beautiful, Colleen. I feel uplifted. Thanks for starting my morning off right. 🙂
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Oh, my goodness. You are so welcome. I wish you a wonderfully peaceful day. Hugs, Diana. ❤
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