Slowly,
nostalgia
trickles into
torrents,to flood memory's
canyon
Crystal clear,vision's backward gaze .All future certainty lies in the past, often distant memories linger fleeting and ephmeral is the dream.Yesterday's hero,a today's has-been,all perspective,out of true;twenty,twenty embellishes hind-sight .Experience forgotten wastes away superficiality now has its day..
on the wind
a bell tolls
memories surface
words unerased-
the image fades
Categories:
unerased, poetry, word play,
Form: Didactic
on the wind
a bell tolls
memories surface-
words unerased
the image fades
NOTE:A tanka in English is essentially a 3 line hiku(SHOW)with a couplet amplification (TELL)
Categories:
unerased, poetry,
Form: Tanka
Essentially a tanka in English is a 3 line hiku(SHOW)& a 2 line couplet (TELL) comment
on the wind
a bell tolls
memories surface-
words unerased
the image fades
Categories:
unerased, poetry, word play,
Form: Tanka
My volatile mind wanders in evaporated emptiness, floating on the flotilla of the sunburst crimson cloud, makes a fascinating painting of formless fantasy on the blank canvas that I keep in the museum of my treasured memory, as with the remains of unerased passions reflected from the mirror of childhood imagination I follow beguiled the engraved trail of the flitting butterflies. I drift perched on their latticed wings, fluttering on the cascade of the whistling wind to the flamboyance of the fleeting rainbow hew, that inspires me to discover from behind the mystic mist the beauty of life, shrouded by the dark clouds of dismay, and to believe that nothing can stop me to become a bird spreading wide the wings, and soar high in moments of reflections in the sky suffused with seamless daydreams, taking my entrapped anguished mind beyond the halcyon horizon to the fathomless realm of infinite freedom, saturated with the aura of timeless bliss, and then I can envision I can fly.
in twilight glimmer
bird flies blithe on homeward gale…
the lost nest in sight
April 2, 2021
Contest : Moments Of Reflections-Haibun
Sponsor : Malabika Ray Choudhury
Categories:
unerased, analogy, bird, childhood, imagination,
Form: Haibun
on the wind
a bell tolls
memories surface
words unerased-
the image fades
Categories:
unerased, imagery, word play,
Form: Tanka
on the wind
a bell tolls
memories surface
words unerased-
the image fades
Categories:
unerased, imagery,
Form: Tanka
imagery&rhyme
&
symbols of sound
in the poetic
found
in childhood memory
assonance&allusion
a fusion
embodied
blended
perceived
received
as
a
human experience
an inward
quality
to colour
forever
indelibly
frozen
imprinted
unerased
introspections
spots of time
of
yours&
mine
Categories:
unerased, childhood, imagery, memory,
Form: Imagism
Beyond an overcast lazuline sky
a night of waning moon sets ember dark.
As a silent candle of molten hope burns
an ashen landscape in sudden flares up
plummeting a trail from heaven to earth.
Streaks of photons scattered in brilliance
lumineers in blaze...
Are they shooting stars?
I had never seen them before.
Eyes blinded in the frazzle of luster.
Shouldn't I make a wish upon?
But alas! In the blink of an eye it was gone.
For a second, my midnight turned dawn.
Then like your passion, the moment disappeared
fading away in perpetual veil of darkness.
But a burning star still revolved around you
in an orbit afar, unerased thoughts in track.
A pensive soul in a meteor shower turned ash
forever sheathed in your radiant flashback.
Dated 18th August 2019
Sponsor Nayda Ivette Negron
Contest Name Shooting Stars
Categories:
unerased, stars,
Form: Free verse
Paper Heart messed
Someone cleaned it again
Impressions unerased
Categories:
unerased, anxiety, beautiful, beauty, black
Form: Haiku
IMAGE PHRASIS 1
Over the stubble,carrion crows,mist
blankets the hedge with fading leaves
where berries rot below the bramble.
As darkness slowly descends a heavy
frost whitens the ground,the daises
hang limp and old and the cold kills.
Nature blinks and shrinks.the yellowed
grass sleeps the landscape cloaked in
a shroud.Spiders cluster in weathered
straw,yellow leaves putrefy,daylight
hours fly stark sensations,simple,
abstract shapes lie as unerased words
in a litter of secret hopes.
From my Twist&Slant 2005
Listen to me recite this part phrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthys chiro
Categories:
unerased, imagery,
Form: Verse
on the wind
a bell tolls
memories surface
words unerased-
the image fades
Categories:
unerased, death, introspection,
Form: Tanka