I remembered your advice re cliches from the first post in self editing of yours that I read not long ago. The other day I wrote a tanka inspired by a line in the scholarly introduction to my copy of Demian. For quite some time, for me anyway, the first line was "War is hell indeed." It felt too much like the cliche. I tried breaking "indeed" into "in deed," but that felt gimmicky. Finally, just before I was about to publish, I hit upon "war damns all to hell."

No One Escapes War Unscathed https://medium.com/paper-poetry/no-one-escapes-war-unscathed-bf3c939705ec