The Clear Light of You
I am walking through a misty wood, lost without a path. I stumble forward, looking for a beam of light, looking for you. Is that shape in front of me, that shadow, a person? Is it walking towards me? Will it emerge so I can see? Can that shape be you? But no, there is a swirl and it dissolves. I am once again alone in the fog.
We think we can see
In Plato’s land of shadow
And know each other
In the end it’s not there
It is only illusion
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This week I decided to give Haibun a try. OK, I still used Tanka for the Poem part. Being October, I was thinking of ghosts and people and how sometimes the two can be the same, at least from the point of view of a solitary mind.
This was written for Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge. The key words today were mist and shape. (Sorry I used the same image as last week – I don’t have many images with mist or fog, at least not posted)
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #6: Trent presents a #tanka-prose Haibun for Colleen’s Poetry Challenge!
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Thanks for the reblog!
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My pleasure!
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Perfect Haibun! I love how there is a romantic edge to your prose. Yet, your tanka connects with thoughts of love like an illusion. Well done!! <3
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Thanks Colleen! When I first started posting poems on my blog, I almost followed this form without realizing it – I’d do a short poem, usually a haiku, and then a commentary on the poem without mentioning the poem itself. I just didn’t do it in the first person present.
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Isn’t that amazing? Haibun have such great potential. <3
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It does have great potential. I’ll have to play around with it a bit more.
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