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            <h2>All the July Challenges in One Place!</h2>
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Overbaked

a tanka — prompt response using the word “dry”

sticky batter mixed

fingers licked, pan in oven

bake watched through glass door

ding, done! cake pulled out and cooled

time to taste, oh no, it’s dry!

Dry cake is such a bummer! I’ve been doing a lot of baking these past few months. I don’t consider myself a great baker, but I have realized that baking success often comes down to following the rules. I’m a rule breaker by nature, but when it comes to baking, I just want my end result to be right. And tasty. Definitely as tasty as possible. So I fight through my natural tendencies to do things my own way and carefully measure, carefully mix, carefully make sure to follow the recipe the best I can. Though, sometimes, I still come out with things that are not quite right: like overbaked, dry cake.

I usually write haiku, but I wanted to try my first tanka poem as a response to a prompt posted in Illumination by Timothy Key. The prompt requests a haiku or tanka using the word “dry.” Read more here:

All the July Challenges in One Place!

Plus, the Tip of the Day, in an easy-to-use format

medium.com

Timothy Key’s response to the prompt is here:

Dry as a…

My Haiku, for you

medium.com

If you liked this poem, you may like my other work.

This is my most popular haiku, a poem about playing a Colonel Sanders dating simulator:

Daily Haiku #5: Rejected

a poem about a dating simulator

medium.com

Here’s the first poem I published on Medium. It’s about adjusting to change, and coming out the other side of it okay:

A Universe In My Palm

In my palm I grasp the beginnings of a new world a whole, tiny ecosystem flourishing

medium.com

Thank you for reading!

Katie Rodante is a writer living in sunny Dallas, Texas with her loving husband, two wild young children, and a lazy maltese. While she began her career as a paralegal, she found her passion is in creative fiction. Her works include a poetry book of Halloween haiku titled Autumn Reveries, several short stories, and two in-progress novels: a women’s fiction novel about love and loss, and a fantasy series involving wizards and music. Connect with me on Twitter, Instagram, and sign up for my newsletter which explores the intersection of creativity and intentional living.