“In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” Carl Jung
how does one
measure life’s seasons
count the years
sixty-one
or two hundred forty-four
slipping into black
~kat
A Shadorma (3/5/3/3/7/5) for MindLoveMiserysMenagerie Sunday Writing Prompt.
Collage, ‘in other words’ by Charles Bukowski
i can’t breathe
second-hand hot air
billowing
tinged with booze
too close, you are much too close
i say i need space
i can’t hear
i stopped listening
to your lies
silly me
i once believed every word
when i was easy
i can’t feel
my heart stopped beating
oh, it pumps
i’m alive
if you can call this living
numbing existence
i can’t leave
i think you’d like that
me leaving
so i stay
resistance in reclaiming
myself in the void
~kat
A Shadorma for MindloveMisery’s Menagerie Sunday Challenge, this week, to explore the topic of: Adjust to the Space of Self, using the collage and poem by Bukowski as inspiration.
A Shadorma is a stanza or series of stanzas with the syllable count o 3/5/3/3/7/5 for a total of 26 syllables.
Photo by Kat Myrman 2015
Happy Poetry Month. On the 5th day we will try the Shadorma. It is a Spanish poetic form made up of a stanza of six lines. (sestet) with no set rhyme scheme. Its syllable pattern is 3-5-3-3-7-5. It can have multiple stanzas, as long as each follows the syllable pattern.
Being Spring
drops of dew
descend like nectar
subtle sweet
lovers’ brew
nature’s aphrodisiac
new life on the wing
seedlings pop
bursts of vibrant green
blushing blooms
sweet perfume
not concerned with vanity
busy being Spring
kat ~ 5 April 2016
Photo Credit: Kat Myrman 2016
I am obsessed with this tree! This is an image from a different vantage point. It actually looks like there are two branch antlers on her head. She just may be a tree nymph, which explains my obsession. I pass by her every day on my drive home and I can’t look away!
From the Theoi Greek Mythology Website:
THE NYMPHAI (or Nymphs) were female spirits of the natural world, minor goddesses of the forests, rivers, springs, meadows, mountains and seas. They were responsible for the crafting of nature’s wild beauty, from the arrangement and growth of the plants, flowers and trees, to the nurture of wild birds and animals, and the formation of rocky caverns, springs, wetlands and brooks.
Nymphs were also companions of the gods. Dionysos had his wild-eyed Mainades and Bakkhai, Artemis was accompanied by a band of huntress nymphs, Hekate by the dark Lampades nymphs of the underworld. Poseidon‘s court was attended by Nereides and sea nymphs, and the Olympian court by nymph handmaidens.
Other nymphs were nurses of the gods, including the Idaian nymphs that nursed the god Zeus, and the Nysian nymphs who cared for Dionysos.
Tree Nymph
Oaken Nymph
fair blushing Dryad
clinging there
evergreen
dance with us on frostbit earth
sing to us of spring!
kat ~ 13 February 2016
Photo by Kat Myrman 2016
Winter tree
stripped bare by the frost
wears ivy
’round her roots
so to remember the spring’s
fair blooms in waiting.
kat ~ 10 February 2016
A Shadorma (Six Line Stanza / Syllable Pattern: 3-5-3-3-7-5) in response to Jane Dougherty’s weekly poetry challenge. This week’s prompt is based on the word: “Tree”. To read more or enter your own poem click HERE.
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