#TANKATUESDAY Weekly #POETRY CHALLENGE 261 #PhotoPrompt #CrapseyCinquain @SyllabicPoetry @ColleenChesebro #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #anxiety

Hello, beautiful readers! This week, on Colleen Chesebro's TankaTuesday Weekly Poetry Challenge, she has given us a photo to inspire our poetry. In a separate post, she introduced me to an American poetry format called the Crapsey Cinquain.

This cinquain contains 5 lines with the syllabic pattern of 2-4-6-8-2. The first four lines create a drama that builds up to the fourth line. The last line pivots from that drama. To get a more in-depth understanding, check out her post here.

Here is the chosen picture and my Crapsey Cinquain:

(courtesy of "Prettysleepy" on Pixabay.com)

Door of Opportunity

tick tock

decision time

will it be worth the risk?

unknown challenges await me

let's go!

I chose to focus on anxiety and indecisiveness, two crutches that love to play tag in my mind. My anxiety needs me to work out every possible scenario of a moment to understand the dangers before me. It goes back to that time when our ancestors lived in fight-or-flight mode and needed to assess every situation in a moment's notice. I sometimes spend so much time in scenario-land that I can't make a decision because although the pondered thought usually starts off as something simple, it builds into an impossible situation in my head.

I have become more aware of how my mind works and why it does what it does over the past few years as I focus on self-care through mindfulness, meditation, emotional frequency tapping, and talk therapy. So, my pivot (line 5) has me letting go of that indecisiveness and finally making a choice to embrace whatever lies ahead of me. 

As I've mentioned before, I am new to syllabic poetry forms, so if I didn't quite use this form correctly, feel free to let me know and guide me as I love learning and growing. Have a great day, everyone! :-)