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Pass the Salt

early sunrise sugarcoats the morning mood masking last night's news in a charade of cheer melting frozen, salty tears sun's antidote sweetens my attitude I must embrace new beginnings, and rub salt into wounds of yesterday ____________________________________ 10/14/13 For Andrea Detrich's Contest: "Sweet or Salty"

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Cecilia Macfarlane

Date: 11/8/2013 12:43:00 PM

Excellent write and win Carrie! Hugs

Skat A

Date: 11/7/2013 11:55:00 AM

Carire *nice* SWEET Or SALTY win................... HUGS ~SKAT

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 11/6/2013 7:23:00 PM

Carrie, , Congratulations On your way to xool Sweet & Sour win... always~ Linda aka PD

Nette Onclaud

Date: 11/6/2013 11:23:00 AM

how can i not LOVE the poetic flavor of this piece, carrie... happy cheers to you for your win!..:) huggs

Sara Kendrick

Date: 11/6/2013 7:42:00 AM

Congrats on your great win with this intriguing work..Sara

Lisa Mccall

Date: 11/6/2013 12:22:00 AM

Lovely write congrats on ur win

Juliet Ligon

Date: 11/5/2013 8:44:00 PM

Inspirational. Congrats, Carrie!

David Fisher

Date: 11/5/2013 6:04:00 PM

This is terrific...congrats on the win!

Joyce Johnson

Date: 11/5/2013 10:58:00 AM

Always a winner Carrie. Congratulations. Love, Joyce

Donna Jones

Date: 11/5/2013 10:17:00 AM

Sometimes things do look a little brighter with a new tomorrow's sunrise.....congratulations Carrie...

Ilene Bauer

Date: 11/5/2013 8:59:00 AM

wonderful! a well-deserved win, carrie!

Debbie Guzzi

Date: 11/5/2013 8:23:00 AM

Salt is very painful in a wound don't do it! ;) Congrad's on your win

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 11/5/2013 8:12:00 AM

Well done Carrie! Congratulations.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 11/5/2013 7:42:00 AM

Hi, Carrie, I am not surprised this one was yours. I don't know how well I understand tanka poetry, but in my opinion this is superb. Congrats for your first place in my contest.

Harry Horsman

Date: 10/17/2013 8:36:00 AM

Oh yes, i also see this as having time to muse on what happened in your yesterdays,, i just love Tankas and these are as good as i've ever seen...

Tim Ryerson

Date: 10/16/2013 1:28:00 PM

I think I know where this one comes from Carrie...LOVE the contrast here and the way you use salt as a healer for the 'wounds of yesterday'...True, it stings but it heals as well and the healing process hurts too...

Poet Tacito

Date: 10/15/2013 10:38:00 AM

Fantastic. Sometimes, that's the only way to remove "yesterdays".

Monterey Sirak

Date: 10/15/2013 8:22:00 AM

Love it! A winner for sure.

Mpho Leteng

Date: 10/15/2013 7:34:00 AM

great write!

Dr.Ram Mehta

Date: 10/14/2013 10:31:00 PM

Two nice images of the use of salt, Carrie

John Posey

Date: 10/14/2013 9:57:00 PM

I've not written many tankas. I hope they will all turn out as great as yours... Thanks for the comment on my latest.... Yea, this was set to country type accompaniment -- guitar, base guitar, drums and steel guitar turned out nice.... Love that ya loved it.... Hugs... Jake.