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You Were There, and other poems - 5. A few Tanka and a Sonnet

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Poem No. 11

 

Tanka:

 

It must be summer –

The flies press against the frame,

For just like stained glass,

Their wings flutter to escape

The very presence of light.

 

 

Poem No. 12

 

Tanka:

 

My thoughts are worn out

By how temporal is our plane;

The things that we have

In the world are all soon tossed,

One tear always bringing more.

 

 

Poem No. 13

 

Tanka:

 

All the crowds are gone,

And the street for once seems mine;

These public buildings

Left to their beauty alone –

To me and the setting sun.

 

 

Poem No. 14

 

Sonnet:

 

What misery supplies is often met –

But not by cure, and not by solution –

For by injury our sorrows get wet,

And with tearful demand comes absolution.

Two parts seem to be afight within me:

Hope and no hope; love and spiting apathy.

Both beg from corners in a silent plea,

Through the eyes of cups looking for dignity.

Like a stroll on the beach, I see them scour –

One care pushing the incoming beneath –

To undermine strength with anti-power,

And bathe the tides in shallow points of grief.

But what Sorrow from us will sometimes take,

No one but He can a complete man make.

 

 

 

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On 6/10/2024 at 9:23 AM, ReaderPaul said:

Fascinating again.  What a variety of description and emotion in so few lines!  The temporal plane, the sense of conflict within we often have, the brief but inspiring descriptions of the buildings and settings --Magnificent!

Thanks, ReaderPaul. It's truly meaningful to know these small pieces of verse, written in the mid-1990s, are able tp connect with people ❤️ 

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On 6/10/2024 at 9:28 AM, Parker Owens said:

Numbers 11 and 14 pluck strings in my heart. There are things in summer that uniquely belong to its days. You describe such a sight in no. 11.  Number 14 makes me feel tears on my eyes and face, for the incompleteness, for the emptiness, and for the injury you write of. 

Thanks for reading and commenting on these, Parker. The Sonnet borrows the image of incoming (and outgoing) tides from one of the W. H. Sonnets by Shakespeare. Thanks for sharing that you connected with these poems  

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