Hour 7, "A Study Of Self..."

2023 Poetry Marathon, Hour 7

Hour 7

9/2/2023

 

"A Study Of Self…"

 

Academia has changed the meanings and syllable count for the forms of Senryu, Haiku, and Tanka.  They are still elegant and meaningful …just not quite what would be expected by "purists" of old (nor the new ones).

 

Abuse touches…

leaving moments to echo

a life's time.

 

Lighting candles

in memory of a girl

who laughed.

But not ever AT me…

Just life.

 

There ARE monsters.

Some even survive their touch,

most wish they hadn't.

 

God took everyone

and everything,

except my feet.

And I've wandered this world -

one step at a time.

 

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba…

Doubly fenced and protected perimeter,

their guards, our guards:

 

I saw a circus…

but the artists died -

on the barbed wire

separating their prison

from our freedoms.

 

And on and on

it goes:

Life as we live it -

is seldom as we want it.

 

Chris

(C) Chris Twyford 9/2/2023

Author's Note

Feel free.