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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Protect Your Heart - #TankaTuesday #Hautt #hexastich #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity @YvetteMCalleiro


Hello, beautiful readers! I am fully enjoying spring break by waking up without an alarm. Truly, that brings me such joy. I'm also getting caught up on tasks around the house and finding time to hang out with friends.

Today, I'm participating in the #TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge, where Melissa invites us to write a Hautt poem. This form uses a hexastich with a syllabic pattern of 4-5-2-2-5-4 and focuses on wisdom and eternal truth. I chose to focus on wisdom and how experiences leads to being wiser in the future.

(image courtesy of @artvizual on Pixabay)

Protect Your Heart

lies coat your lips
should have trusted gut
truths learned
love lost
heart takes precautions
in the future


Would you like to try this form? Click here.

18 comments:

  1. We do need to listen to our intuition! 💗

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  2. Great piece Yvette sometimes we just don’t want to believe iour gut 🩷

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  3. Oh my, you've captured the inner struggle for trust. Beautiful, Yvette. ❤️

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  4. I think to trust our gut we need to have practiced the losses and mistakes enough to have understood them. Trusting your gut is not something I could teach my students.

    We get there in the end. Nicely written Yvette 👏

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    1. I agree, Shaun! We are shaped by our experiences. Thanks for stopping by. :-)

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  5. Love this! Unfortunately our head and heart don't let us listen to our gut until we have learnt the hard way that we should've trusted ourselves...then we are doubly cautious! 💞

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  6. Yvi, let your intuition guide you! Be safe, my friend. ❤️

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  7. Self-trust, belief is so critical, yet sadly in decline, I love this call to arrest the decline.

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    1. I agree with you, Paul! We need to trust ourselves more. Thanks for stopping by! :-)

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  8. Wisdom learned by mistakes, earned by experience...good one, Yvette!

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  9. I think most women learn this at some point ❤️‍🩹. Robbie

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