LIGHTENING ROD: Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge

I haven’t done this challenge before but I came across on my good friend’s David Bogomolny’s blog over at the Skeptic’s Kaddish so I thought I’d give it a whirl. It’s called The Symetrelle

(The Symetrelle is a form created by Julie Moeller Writing on Allpoetry com as Bluejewel. She describes it thus:

• It begins and ends with a single subject line that is 7 syllables.
• It has ‘a hat and boots’, mono-rhymed couplets that lead you into and out of the subject with a 9 syllable count.
• At the heart of it is a mono-rhymed 4 line quatrain with an 11 syllable count.)

Below lies my contribution which gave us the word Lightening to use as a guide line. Not sure it’s exactly within the parameters of a symatelle but sure hope you’ll enjoy! 🤞🙏😁

LIGHTENING ROD

She’s a lightening rod for trouble

It courses through her veins
She always gets the blame

When you’re in her vicinity
Bad things happen implicitly
The air fills with electricity
From her strange eccentricity

She’s a lightening rod for trouble

If you too would like to participate in the prompt then you can access it through the following link:

https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2022/09/27/tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-291-9-27-22-themeprompt/