Falling red, closed honeysuckle-like blooms
Beneath child’s light tapping toe.
Mother turns to look,
fewer footsteps beside her gait.
Soaking in small daughter
Tapping on hop-scotched sidewalk,
Returns by way of mortar
And concrete houses’ gates.
Two lowered heads tasking,
Popping vine’s red fallen blooms
To crackling morning’s crispness
On a hundred afternoons.
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A bone pot is a sacred vessel in the Chinese tradition, and used to house the bones of the dead after seven years of earth burial. This blog is the holding place for poetry, thoughts on environmental issues, and discussions of all flavors. Join in.
A bone pot is a sacred vessel in the Chinese tradition, and used to house the bones of the dead after seven years of earth burial. This blog is the holding place for poetry, thoughts on environmental issues, and discussions of all flavors. Join in.
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3 comments:
awesome. one my faves....
-Dan
this is lovely, but ethereal, too. ghostly. harder to visualize. little bits of rhyme -- I almost thougth it was a -- rondel? villanelle? can't remember, whichever has the same words at the end of the lines, just mixed up. each verse. It feels form-ish. vivid color, aural elements. i want to practice some form with you and the others. thanks for this.
Erin, I love this. I love the lyrical - sing out loud - quality your capture here. I like that it makes it's own way through the meter and rhyme, because it does make its way, very nicely thank-out, and on 'a path less traveled' which is a BIG bonus as far as I'm concerned. Opaleye.
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