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Mystery's Flower

Oars are dipped in light The shadows of the night flee Mystery’s flower blooms

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Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 2/12/2017 2:37:00 PM

- Beautiful and well done, John - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Darren White

Date: 2/7/2017 7:20:00 AM

I love it how you do two tankas or haiku every day and one verse :) This little one is so full or imagery in its three short lines! I can see the oars break that silence.

John Herlihy
Date: 2/7/2017 9:21:00 AM

Thanks, Darren. Yea, I like the haiku, tanka form. It forces me to be concise, since I do have a tendency to "overwrite" and/or "overexplain" in some of my longer poems, and definitely in my non-fiction prose, which incidentally has been described as "poetic". John