Sailing the wind

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La Voile Jaune by Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916). Image courtesy of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

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Sailing the wind

on endless ocean wrapped with sky,

sailing the wind,

chasing the sun yearning to find

destiny, so onward we fly,

lithe fish below, birds in the sky

sailing the wind.

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This poem is a rondelet in response to Jane Dougherty Poetry Challenge #37.  The challenge was to write a rondelet using the above painting and the prompt ‘journey’ as inspiration.

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My name is Janice.  I started blogging as Ontheland when I moved from Toronto to a rural area near Kingston, Ontario in Canada.  Over time I have found myself writing poetry, mostly in Japanese forms, such as haiku and haibun.  One of my deepest interests is the natural world: the joy of it and how we can look after it better.

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