Shadow Games #tanka #haibun

Shadow Games

I am going along, getting on with my life. I hear a voice, stop and look, You are having fun with your favorite diversion, or so it seems. You behave like you’re in a show, but are acting only for yourself, for you do not see me here. And then it hits me, and I have to wonder, do I really see you?

I see your shadow
Absorbed into your pastime
I want to join in
I’m not really part of it
I’m on the outside, looking in

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Written for Colleen’s Poetry challenge. Each week she gives us two keywords, only we must use synonyms only, not the words themselves. This week the key words were the poet’s (me ;) ) choice, so I chose “Hobby” and “Play” This week I decided to do a haibun with a tanka.

20 thoughts on “Shadow Games #tanka #haibun”

Vashti Q April 10, 2019 at 2:15 pm

Hello, Trent. Beautiful and poignant Tanka. The picture of the desert also conveys the same sentiments. Well done. <3

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trentpmcd Post authorApril 10, 2019 at 2:51 pm

Thanks, Vashti! I do love the photo, but it is actually a beach at low tide – the sand flats extend out about a half a mile from the dunes and the water leaves very cool patterns in the sand, patterns made bold in shadows :)

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1. Vashti Q April 10, 2019 at 4:57 pm
  
  Oh wow, that’s very cool. :)
  
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  1. trentpmcd Post authorApril 10, 2019 at 5:58 pm
    
    It is a cool place – perhaps my favorite on Cape Cod.
    
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Elizabeth March 29, 2019 at 4:55 pm

it’s like you’ve lost something and can’t recover it. beautifully expressed.

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trentpmcd Post authorMarch 29, 2019 at 6:00 pm

Thanks, Elizabeth.

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Prior... March 28, 2019 at 3:53 pm

Wonderful layers T
And I would like to sit over tea and ponder some ways we could apply this – feels
Like many social applications are here

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trentpmcd Post authorMarch 29, 2019 at 7:37 am

Thanks, Y. I think a lot of us feel the outsider, but I also feel a lot of us don’t truly (or fairly) see the people around us and the people we think are “in” feel just as “out” as we do…

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1. Prior... March 30, 2019 at 4:48 am
  
  I think you are right on with that
  
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