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Open Poetry #46

Solitude

Bastet
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since 2010-05-07

Posts 246

0 posted 2010-11-11 03:21 AM

SOLITUDE

Tiny frog, Bacho’s cliché,
back speckled as the spider lily,
belly pale as drifting mist
under an autumn moon,
cry plaintive as a song
half-remembered,
sometimes only a rustle
in the long grass.
Soft crunch under foot,
the snail has left his home.
Under the eaves, clay crumbs
of the swallow’s empty nest.
Crows in the field
pecking at the chaff
of the final harvest,
the late season,
the unseen color of solitude.

Eusta B. Mae
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since 2010-05-03

Posts 903

1 posted 2010-11-11 08:19 AM

Like your images here-enjoyed! ebm

Amaryllis
Senior Member

since 2010-05-20

Posts 1306
Mi now

2 posted 2010-11-11 12:17 PM

Oh beautiful, Bastet... I adore the abstract way you come at the subject from the sides... all of the quiet fall/nature images serve to support the solitude. Love the nod to Bacho, too. Gorgeous! I remain a fan.
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My best~
Amaryllis

s1nfully_1nn0c3nt
Senior Member

since 2003-10-26

Posts 1105
Watertown, NY

3 posted 2010-11-11 08:28 PM

Your use of nature for reference is wonderful. Great imagery. Enjoyed.

-Trina.

"To decieve ones self, is truly a grueling battle. One which we're destined to lose."

easy1
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since 2010-05-22

Posts 1209
Southeastern USA

4 posted 2010-11-13 06:17 AM

You speak, I believe, of the stubble and the stragglers... before the blizzard season, but no less a part of it eventually. Good stuff! (Your writing here, and the seasons, also, assuming one can survive them decently)

I had to look this up again, it has literally been years: http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/matsuo_basho/poems/405.html

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