Thanks, Elsie. I find the 'labels' on the right side under post settings on the page where I write the posts. Maybe yours will be there too. Took me quite a while to get things figured out to suit me. Then something changes and I have to do it all again! Keeps the old brain working.
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #38 A Trip Along Memory Lane #1 Carpe Diem Special How happy! Bathing in the tub full to overflowing The above one line poem by Sumitaku Kenshin (1961-1987) really sent me down memory lane. Until I was a teenager my family lived on a farm. The year Sumitaku Kenshin was born, my family moved "in town". That move brought us into a new age, indoor plumbing. Until that time there was a galvanized tub for baths and a path for other bodily necessities. Baths were taken on the screened in back porch during the summer months. There would be 3 to 4 inches of water in the tub. Water drawn from the well just outside the house. Some of the water would be heated in the teakettle on the stove in the kitchen. Youngest child would bath first. Then up through the ages of the children. Daddy was always the last. In the same 3 to 4 inches of water. Once baths were done, the tub was overturned and the porch scrubbed. Cause water was is
Nice tanka poem. I'm new to writing on Blogger, will have to work out how to do the tags which I see by your post they are called Labels. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Elsie. I find the 'labels' on the right side under post settings on the page where I write the posts. Maybe yours will be there too. Took me quite a while to get things figured out to suit me. Then something changes and I have to do it all again! Keeps the old brain working.
DeleteI like that very much. Very interesting concept. Funny chat about Labels!
ReplyDeletePleased you liked the tanka. Well, us ladies of 'wisdomed years' have to help each other!
DeleteI like that very much. Very interesting concept. Funny chat about Labels!
ReplyDeleteDeep and very interesting. Had to read twice. Like - "Less is more" :)
ReplyDeleteI am really attempting to work on using as few words as possible just for the fun of it.
DeleteNice ! I had to read it twice too. :)
ReplyDeleteI found this one to be a real challenge to write.
DeleteI like your response. As I haiku it is complete, as a tanka it is resolved.
ReplyDeleteOh, my. Had not thought about a tanka being resolved. I have so very much to learn. Thanks so very much for this comment.
DeleteInteresting tanka. The journey continues.
ReplyDeleteYes, and it promises to be an interesting journey.
DeleteNice tanka Janice! Words have a way of being a saving grace
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Yes, Hank, they do at times.
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