Tanka challenge 4/5/10

I set a challenge
To test myself and perhaps
Create some beauty.
What I do is what I do.
What you do is what you do.

I am not here to absolve you if you don't have time to take up the challenge this time around.

I am not here to give you permission to double dip because real life is getting in the way.

I am not here to pass judgment on the choice you make to take the challenge in a direction not specified by the initial intent of said challenge.

I am not here to give you a gold star.  I am not here to take points from Griffendor.

I am here to write.
To get better at it.
To demand of myself that I come up with thirty one syllables even when I don't feel like it.

If I fail, I fail. I will not salve my conscience by writing two poems to make up for a day I skipped. I will own skipping that day.

If I write crap, I write crap. Writing crappy tanka is period - and inevitable. They can't all be gems.

I will not make excuses about my output or lack thereof.

 Like the little green Master says, "Do or do not. There is no try."

Write. Or don't write.