It’s April and it’s poetry time. Any excuse to post a poem.
Here’s my first one of the season, another cleave poem because I did it after bloody hours of torture. I exaggerate. But it wasn’t like rolling off a log either.
Windโs from the north/ spring clouds bowling
From the wintry sea / gulls soaring inland
Cold rain spatters / over dancing river waves
Tearing tender blossoms / splashing the banks with foam.
Winters grip tightens /in the first days of springtime
On bird-huddled branches/ hazels are greenly leafing
And nestlings pipe with feeble voices / in the pale sun streaming.
I walk with heavy heart / Blackbirdโs song is in my ears
Remembering the golden past / filled with joy and easy beauty
When summer danced / rippling bright as river water
For you and me / fading with the distant twilight
Now I am left / as night draws near
With a handful of snowflakes / falling gently as cherry blossom.
napowrimo.net first prompt is lune. Better to ease into thirty poems. ๐ You write cleave poems well great images in all three.
Thank you! What is lune? I only know it as moon in French.
English language haiku rules my blog and napowrimo.net explain it.
Thanks ๐
I especially love the last two lines. Beautiful!
Thanks Merril ๐ Cherry blossom always makes me think of snowflakes.
But in the warmth of spring. ๐
I can live without snowflakes, not spring though ๐
I agree!
A comrade-in-arms! Nice to see you’re doing it too, Tricia ๐
I see the nature of your surroundings in your words Jane…very well expressed…HERE in Hyderabad we don’t get to see either snowflakes or the cherry blosoms…loved the image too
I’m sure you have something to compensate though that we don’t have ๐
Yes we do have cuckoo bird songs, fragrant neem flowers and fresh mango fruits(not ripe)….very pleasant morning breeze n pretty hot summer days…
This Cleave is wonderful all tree sing like harmonics. Thank you for bringing the Cleave alive.
Thanks,Ellen. I’m really getting into this form. It has so many possibilities.
Hello! so happy I came across your blog today … I’d forgotten that this month is also NaWriPoMo! Happy Writing! https://bastetandsekhmet.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/awaken-to-live-a-to-z-challenge-cleave-poem-april-1-2016/
I had too until I saw it mentioned on a blog.
Beautiful in every facet. I especially love the bird-huddled greenly leafing hazels.
Thank you ๐ I’ve really taken to this form. It was the devil to get into to begin with, but I love the idea of the two sides going in opposite directions but still being held to the central idea.