POETRY CORNER
– 11/08/16
Hosted by Kathabela Wilson
♣ We welcome and encourage your response especially in the form of short poems. You may reply by leaving a comment below.
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Bon Voyage (Photo – Kathabela Wilson).
Scott-Patrick Mitchell
ritual
we tighten equator around hull
check mirrors to ensure the
past is bigger than it appears
slipstream luggage overhead
cancel all subscriptions & then
pour ourselves along trajectories
toward coordinates yet unseen
Scott-Patrick Mitchell is a poet who lives in Perth, Western Australia. He says :”As a nervous traveler, the poem plays on the rituals that I perform before traveling. How travel is a matter of buckling in and bracing, but once it kicks off, there is a tremendous ease to the experience.”
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Lisbon (Photo – Rick Wilson).
Cristian Mocanu-Deva
Whether you’re leaving me for good or will return some day
Let your thousand mile journey start-me and my tears bless you
My colour, my taste and my scent will contain part of yours forever.
Cristian Mocanu-Deva is a poet living in Romania. His poem is a “sijo”. He says: “A sijo, in short, is an ancient Korean poetry form, traceable back to the 11-th century AD. Its name means “song” and indeed the syllable and rhythmic pattern is meant to ensure a certain musicality of the verses. It consists of 3 lines of 14-16 syllables each, resulting in a total of 44-46. Each line has a kind of caesura, or rather a breathing pause, in the middle. The last line is frequently longer than the others. The last line must provide a twist or a surprise to conclude the poem. Traditionally a sijo is formatted as three lines (like I did), some contemporary poets chose to present it as 6 shorter lines (in which case the last 2 provide the twist), it’s a matter of choice.”
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Pisa adventure (Photo – Kathabela Wilson).
Pat Geyer
a twist a turn
tripping around
our unclear path…this broken journey
we call life often narrows
toward the end. . .
another journey…
caravan
of dreamsfinds
a way
almost there
Pat Geyer is a poet, photographer and gardener who lives in East Brunswick, New Jersey. Her six line poems are called “cherita”. Cherita tell a story, usually with a single line, then two, and then concluding with three. It has no restrictions, it has an essential storytelling progression.
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> The Poetry Corner is hosted by Kathabela Wilson. At the time this Corner is published, she will probably be back home, bearing any last minute flight delay.
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