Abraham’s Call

Paint Chip Poetry

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Abraham in Ur
God’s voice upon a zephyr
Told him from home go
Onward then to Canaan’s land
His compliance was not slow

The paint chip words and phrases are starship, zephyr, slow, black widow, coffee, lemonade, and sunny-side up. I want you to pick two or three, and no more, of these words and phrases and write a tanka. That means you get a total of 31 syllables written in lines of 5/7/5/7/7.

Padre