Like pockets in Heart
10 October 2015
The drizzling rain sighed
Upon plains of autumn leaves
That sizzled in heat
In memory raindrops fell
Washing down yesterday’s peaks
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Begonias stood dull
Huddled in a tight circle
Wrapped around dark mud
Where did they now disappear
Blazing colours of your Love?
.
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Petunias listless
Stretched in the midst of vases
Like pockets in Heart
White lies fell on burning Soul
That saw through the stories told
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Cold air touched the heat
Mist-like pattern on the glass
Intrinsic cooling
Reminding me of first chill
My Heart stilled itself like stone
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Voices through the mist
Muffled by the words of loss
Carried themselves low
Within my heart your voice called
Shattering icy carvings
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The lyrical flow of this prose is transcendent .
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Thank you Mark, so kind of you. It is actually poetry in Tanka form. Tanka is considered the ancestor of Haiku and is a “genre of classical Japanese poetry”.
“Tanka consist of five units […] usually with the following pattern:
5-7-5-7-7.[3]
The 5-7-5 is called the kami-no-ku (上の句 “upper phrase”?), and the 7-7 is called the shimo-no-ku (下の句 “lower phrase”?).” Source wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanka
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