Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday
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Today’s prompts at Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday are cold and storm, synonyms only. Where I am concerned, ‘A whirlwind of apathy’ best describes your heart. And you? A limp, oily carp, yesterday’s catch thrown back.
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This Cherita was written for Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday but I failed to read the guidelines carefully. This should have been written in Tanka, Haiku, Senryu, Haibun, Etheree or Cinquain poetry forms. Ooops! Here’s mine anyway: Calixta bewitched her men as they dreamt, making them burn and ache with desire; craving her touch, her warmth. They
