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Colleen’s 2018 Weekly Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge Dance & Command

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Miriam Hurdle 12 comments

Colleen’s 2018 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 79, Dance & Command #SynonymsOnly

As soon as I saw the words for Colleen’s Poetry Challenge this week, the image of Waltz showed up in an instance. My sister was a Ballroom Dance instructor before she retired. She regularly posts her own dance or other dance demonstration videos on her social media. When she and her dance friends have birthdays, with no exception, they have dance parties.

In this Didactic Cinquain, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinquain I use Waltz for Dance and Tugs for Command.

Credit

Waltz

Elegant, graceful

Gliding, twirling, floating

Gentle tugs synchronize steps

Music

♪♫♥♫♪

Life is likea cup of tea

Colleen’s 2018 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge, No. 79 Dance & Command #SynonymsOnly

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Miriam Hurdle

Miriam Hurdle grew up in Hong Kong where she went to college and worked for five years before coming to the United States. While in Hong Kong, she taught Chinese as a Second Language at Hong Kong Baptist University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong for three years. She was also the Director of the Children’s Department at the Asian Outreach where she published four Chinese Children’s books. Miriam Hurdle came to the United States for her graduate studies. She received her master’s degrees in Christian Ministry from Portland Seminary, Counseling from Seattle Pacific University, and Education Administration from California State University, Los Angeles. After teaching in a California public school for fifteen years, she was promoted to a school district administrative position. She went on to do the postgraduate studies and earned her Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from La Verne University in California. Dr. Hurdle continued in her administrative position for ten years before her retirement. In her retired life, Dr. Hurdle enjoys doing volunteer counseling, reading, writing, blogging, singing, drawing, watercolor painting, gardening, photographing, and traveling. Dr. Hurdle is married to Lynton Hurdle and has one married daughter and one granddaughter.