Clouds fixed in settled explosions of amber and saffron
Clement winds tossing seaweed on the toasted flaxen sand
I’d like to die here, for I’d already be in heaven
Posted in response to the challenge Sijo Poetry.
Clouds fixed in settled explosions of amber and saffron
Clement winds tossing seaweed on the toasted flaxen sand
I’d like to die here, for I’d already be in heaven
Posted in response to the challenge Sijo Poetry.
One summer, when I was about five years old, I abruptly glanced upon the vast sea with new eyes, ones that saw the water that I used to love so dearly in a petrifying new light.
Under the green jungle crown
you silently go,
Shimmers of light pattering
down onto your soft, worn skin.
The deep, unconscious current guards
my hopeless human figure from
the continuous plume of silence
echoing below my floating forearms.
my pure body is tossed in a
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