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Let Them Eat Cake!

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Written for Tanka Tuesday where Colleen
asks us to write a poem using homophones.
Here’s where the prompt took me.

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A doe made some dough for a cake.
Dear deer watched her knead it and bake.
She got more confused by the hour –
“Do I need flour or flower?”
When through she threw it all in the lake!

NAR©2026

This is “If I Knew You Were Coming I’d’ve Baked a Cake” from Sesame Street

#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 65, Fun with Homophones, 5/19/2026

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