all the bean poles put away,
the garden flat and empty,
accessories of summer gone
I see the barren white to come,
the frozen slope of winter.
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Tag: gogyohka
Clouds and waves
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Here, together
we play, gaze at clouds,
dream by waves rolling to shore.
We are anchors—you for me
I for you—and together we fly
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Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #49
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gogyohka 18.8.18
summer spring is here
torrential rains of August
raised green pastures—
paradise for grazing ravens and
butterflies who visit my dreams
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fields of strife
Fields of wild strife—
I see purple flower clusters,
fires raging in B.C., Greece, California
unending warfare in faraway places,
my good fortune singed with sorrow.
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Note: I use ‘strife’ to refer to the purple wildflower, ‘loosestrife’, as well as for the standard meaning: conflict and struggle.
The poem is intended to be a Gogyohka, a modern Japanese five-line poem with fewer requirements than a classical tanka.
in tow
my life a wake
behind father’s boat
free yet in tow
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in tow, traversing
glass, crisp ruffles, rough whitecaps
a capricious landscape
when I fall or let go
the boat will return
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©️2018 Ontheland
Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2018, Finding the Way, July 15 to August 14
picking apples
from an apple tree
a poem may be plucked
one phrase, then the next
gathering
a ripened abundance
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This poem started as a haiku and then evolved to five lines which possibly could be considered a gogyohka, a contemporary form of Japanese poetry, introduced by Enta Kusakabe to reduce the restrictions of classical rules such as syllable counts.
Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2018, Finding the Way, July 15 to August 14
Photo credit: sourced from Pixabay
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