ON INTO WINTER
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I had thought to end the autumn season with Kigin’s “shape of the wind”
hokku, but a reader in Japan then sent me a new verse that seemed quite
appropriate...
3 weeks ago
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Quintanka 5: Summer Dreaming Poem
On Seeing Again Sailboats
As if our sailing psyches
surfaced from deep subconscious seas
to breathe the dream and stay
afloat with will and wakefulness—
else sink again towards sleep to freeze.
~Son Rivers 2007
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1 comment:
Oh to be sailing in the summer winds! Nice poem!
Skye
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