I’m writing today’s poem using a Write the Story prompt to create a Tanka, which is a poem of 5 lines with syllable counts 5/7/5/7/7. I used Matthew 18;22 as inspiration for the final line of the poem.
Prompt: Mash Up Two Classic Fairy Tales into One Story
Words to be Used: fireplace, sword, grove, stoke, underbrush, mourn, seven, friendship, cardboard, giver
Fairy Tale Slain
green grove of friendship
stoke the fireplace with a sword
mourn cardboard ashes
givers lurk in underbrush
no seventy times seven
Common Threads 