a river of light
captured by the air, turning,
spinning outside in—
uncontained by outlines–this
arc of souls with wings sailing
A tanka for Frank Tassone’s Milky Way Haikai Challenge.
The Milky Way is, mythologically speaking, a roadway built by the gods linking heaven and earth–souls and birds use it for traveling between the two worlds.
Just so.
Linked also to Open Link Night at dVerse.
K. 
Oh, just splendid! The great world fish-bird!
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Thanks Jane. This collage made itself…the Oracle was definitely in the air.
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It’s one of her best.
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Thank you for sharing your tanka and your collage here Kerfe! Had a mystical essence I enjoyed.
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Thanks Rob.
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #4: K’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!
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Thanks Frank!
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This poem is the kind of thing I like to think about as I am going to sleep – the imagery gives me a sense of going home, of rest, and the future, no matter where my soul is tomorrow, not something to be feared.
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I like that–like a lullaby. Thanks Claudia!
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Nice comparison of physical and mythological travel
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Thanks Larry.
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Gorgeous–words and art. Yes, definitely the Oracle whispering: “arc of souls with wings sailing”
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Thanks Merril…She hovers around quite a bit I find.
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She does!
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Captured, yet uncontained, like our imaginations
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Thanks Ken. The stars are just like that.
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an arc of souls indeed, even if the only souls happen to be in a small drop in the river, Splendid Kerfe, makes me sorry for all the light pollution here where I live.
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Thanks Lona. The skies here are poorly populated too. Another reason I treasure my weeks at the beach–all those stars.
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⭐️ 💫
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Oh I love that last line…”arc of souls with wings sailing”. The collage and your words are magical together.
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Love how we can imagine starlight to be anything we want… imagination is endless.
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Just like the cosmos. Thanks Bjorn.
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