halfway
is never fixed–
merging not in a line,
but positioned between–
too brief to be
resolved
the madness of fate–
consummation and release,
sweeping life away
Another collage inspired by Elisa Ang’s painting, paired with the Badger and Kick-About poem, above, and my Pure Haiku Volcano contribution which you can read here.
puzzling
destinations–
the details repeated,
magnified, untraveled–
living outside
a map
random lines break down–
the page explodes, caught trembling–
from nothing, vast light
The Kick-About poem and collage and Oracle 2 Badger above serve as a prelude to my third Volcano offering at Pure Haiku, which you can read here.
noisy
this internal
growth–sudden burst of stars–
gigantic, wonderful–
an attack of
pure light
inside opens out
disintegrates unbound–
what was not, now is
You can read my second Volcano poem at Pure Haiku here. Do visit, as it complements the Kick-About poem and Oracle 2 Badger above.
what season is this?
dark, enigmatic, grown wild–
spilling from our eyes
don’t weep–
rings encircle
us inside life’s limits–
we must learn to accept
the turning of
the tides
Elisa Ang provided the artistic inspiration, above, for my series of volcano poems appearing this week at Pure Haiku. Serendipitously, the Kick-About recently hosted a prompt based on Turner’s painting of Mt. Vesuvius, for which I made a series of collages and wrote a cadralor of volcano-themed poems titled “In Search of Venus”. And Jane’s Oracle 2 words provided further inspiration for me to write five Badger poems to go with the volcano theme.
You can read my poem at Pure Haiku here. Thanks, as always, to Freya Pickard for her continued support of my work.
The serpent grew wings–
emerging from the cosmic egg,
it became a bird.
Embracing the tree of life
and all of spirit’s progeny,
the serpent grew wings.
Beginning as a vast secret
of stars and swirling light
emerging from the cosmic egg
The serpent shed its skin
and imagined miracles.
It became a bird.
The NaPoWriMo prompt today was to write a poem about a mythical person or creature doing something unusual . My response is not exactly on prompt–I took a mythical creature but I reimagined it into hope instead of despair. As Brendan at earthweal says: let’s celebrate radical hope — that hope whose only basis is our faith in the wonder of life and our capacity to embrace it.
The form I used for the poem is the Cascade, one of Muri’s April scavenger hunt poetic prompts. I’d forgotten how much I like it–thanks Muri!
I did not have to look far into my Redon-inspired collages for a mythological subject. The stitched mandala is from my constellation series–this is the Phoenix, first published on Pure Haiku.
Your ashes illume,
cradled beyond day and night –
great is the unknown.
You can find the last of my five Ghostlight poems at Pure Haiku, here.
Thanks again to Freya Pickard and the artist who provided the visual inspiration, Troi David Loy, for sparking so many wonderful poems in response to the Ghostlight theme, and for supporting the writing of poetry.
You can read my 3rd Ghostlight poem at Pure Haiku here.
Once again, thanks to Freya for her support of my work.
I’m honored to have been chosen by Freya Pickard and the artist who provided inspiration, Troi David Loy, as the featured artist for Pure Haiku’s Ghostlight theme. I’ve responded back with my own collage inspired by the original work for each poem. You can read my first haiku here.
Thanks Freya and Troi!
K. 