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Attribution: ceridwen
Image: A Decomposed Leaf (substitute for
image of a decomposing flower ) (here)
image of a decomposing flower ) (here)
decomposed flowers
silent witness of a
relative
red tear-stained
eyes
Stark reality in life
Sustenance brief
and fleeting
decomposed flowers
silent witness of a
relative
red tear-stained
eyes
Divine intervention not
invoked by design
invoked by design
Note: Kris
provided us a haiku and we are to make it a tanka by adding 2 lines
of 7 syllables making the syllable count as 5-7-5-7-7. I’ve decided an offering
of 2 tanka
Written for Chev’s CARPE DIEM's Tan Renga Challenge #7 and
shared with Open Link Monday at Real Toads
shared with Open Link Monday at Real Toads
so many meanings likewise life is too
ReplyDeleteDecompaing flowers - a sad thought but they brought such joy along the way, no?
ReplyDeleteThis was a fun write, wasn't it?
ReplyDeleteI had a friend, a retired Baptist preacher who, when he visited a person in the hospital, would bring a bouquet of wilted dead flowers.
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I wonder what message he was driving at. It might create questions unnecessarily from those receiving them.Thanks Dr Jim!
DeleteLike your take. Always grounded in what is.
ReplyDeleteI like what you did with this, Hank! Nice composition.
ReplyDeleteLiving the best one can, through each stage
ReplyDeleteThis is very Ecclesiastes, everything has a season.
ReplyDeleteI always ask people to not give me cut flowers, because they depress me when they wilt. Yeah, I know, you can dry them, but it's still death, all I see...
Very affecting poem, Hank. Love, Amelita
wonderful additions
ReplyDeleteGreat connection here between the dying flowers, the inference of a relative passing on, how fleeting it all is......yet how beautiful. Lovely, Hank!
ReplyDeleteThis is rich with meaning. The connection between the dead flower and a relative really struck me..when my grandmother died there were so many roses at her funeral. For so long I couldn't stand the smell of a rose because it took me back to that day.
ReplyDeleteI love this one! So many layers of meaning~ I really enjoyed this write! Well Done Hank :D
ReplyDeleteWonderfully done, Hank.
ReplyDeleteK
You did a great job on this challenge Hank, two Tan Renga, really awesome ones and both with another deeper meaning. Thank you for sharing these with us all here on Carpe Diem.
ReplyDeleteBoth thoughtful. I like the first best. Life is fleeting and always a mystery as to when it ends.
ReplyDeleteReality, we who witness death and support the living also age and decompose in time. Life as bouquet, in which some parts wilt faster than others! Nicely done.
ReplyDeleteOpens up different interpretations here. A bouquet indeed!
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