Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Desirous of the ability that I sadly lack

                                                                                           Author: Basile Morin                                               Image: Dark Clouds Drifting by  (here)

Theme: Art and Colours
S for Settling on the Plains

                    

Flood 
Heavy-set thick dark clouds drift pass
Sustaining showers that raced to the ground
Transforming into sheets of cool glass
Settling on the plains into rivers of brown

With drinks flowing and lots of good bites
Among friends now far from sight
Waiting for signs that they are back
Desirous of the ability that I sadly lack 

Aligned to the Poem below: 

Flood ~ by T’ao  Chien
The lingering clouds, rolling, rolling,
And the settled rain, dripping, dripping,
In the Eight Directions—the same dusk.
The level lands—one great river.
Wine I have, wine I have:
Idly I drink at the eastern window.
Longingly—I think of my friends,
But neither boat nor carriage comes.

Laura at d'Verse : Poetics : China - kingdom of the poem
A to Z April Challenge - S

11 comments:

  1. I like these vivid images you've painted:
    "Transforming into sheets of cool glass
    Settling on the plains into rivers of brown"

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  2. We are all missing friends and family right now. I felt this!

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  3. Strange times we're in Hank, We are all in the same boat I suppose.
    Exactly written and take care.
    Yvonne.

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  4. Nice job. I was trying to use the word "glass" to describe the flooded fields, but I failed where you succeeded.

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  5. Well done, Hank, for the rhymes, and especially for the rain metaphor ‘sheets of cool glass / Settling on the plains into rivers of brown’.

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  6. a very vivid first stanza - from rain to flooded ground and the second stanza the complete lack of refreshing reunions with friends - a really enjoyable interpretation of the original

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  7. The first stanza touched me, the other day there was a sun shower and I went outside and stood in the cooling rain barefoot in the grass. Facing the sun, it felt Mystical.

    Oh I do miss the pre pandemic life and friends.

    Stay safe Hank

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  8. You make it easy to imagine the situation in the original as being in our own times. With changing weather patterns, there's more and more of this.

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  9. Oh yes I miss my family and it feels worse when the sky is laden with dark clouds !

    https://pagesfromjayashree.blogspot.com/2021/04/s-for-snake.html

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  10. Gorgeously rendered, Hank especially love the rain metaphor "sheets of cool glass / Settling on the plains into rivers of brown."

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