Picnic Repellant

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Wivenhoe Park, Essex, 1816: Artist – John Constable
Midday sustenance 
Placed upon a checkered cloth 
Spread atop a hill 
Shaded by an ancient tree 
Pristine lake below
Serene cows grazing green grass
A warm summer breeze 
Provides the stench of cow dung 
Unappetizing picnic

A picture worth a thousand words may still only tell half the story.

Prompted by Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge No. 330 to write an ekphrastic poem in syllabic form, inspired by the depicted image.

I chose to write a Choka followed by an American Sentence.

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