Calamine Warpaint

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'*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' sunrise warms my face the morning's first visitor alights on a cheek streaked with calamine warpaint my day begins with murder '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*' '*'

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Jan Allison

Date: 9/12/2021 9:19:00 AM

love the humour here with calamine warpaint and that final line Lycia:-) hugs jan xx

Constance La France

Date: 8/20/2021 1:40:00 PM

Lycia, wonderful poem, the calamine warpaint and murder made me laugh ~Constance

Lycia Harding
Date: 8/21/2021 3:04:00 PM

Thank you, Connie! xoxo LyLy

Rico Leffanta

Date: 8/20/2021 11:33:00 AM

When Anglos arrived in Hawai'i, they found no mosquitoes other than those they brought with them . . . . .

Lycia Harding
Date: 8/21/2021 3:04:00 PM

Now, let's think about that, Rico... How would one go about proving this particular theory? Hmmm...?

David Kavanagh

Date: 8/20/2021 1:21:00 AM

Hope you smashed it good Lycia, just like this brilliant Tanka, cheers David

Lycia Harding
Date: 8/21/2021 3:05:00 PM

Thank you, Dave! xoxo LyLy