Sorry! Got caught up in other stuff ;-) Day 29

[dr_con]

A rough and ready kind of poetry
4/29/2023, Con/Jur/d

We must beg forgiveness
for the fits and starts, the forward
and back, the self at the center
a societal construction, a cultural
concrete, to fill in the Gap, so we have
more to say to each other than, “Wow”

Instructed not to apologize and defend
a chimera from the past, we see how it is
how it covers everything, a naked armor
like Basho’s cuckoo that destroys Kyoto
with teeth, Godzilla would envy

Or those moments between
waking and sleeping
where we become nameless
placeless, empty
without

Beginning or end.

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa (Essential Poets) Paperback – August 1, 1995
by Robert Hass (Editor, Translator)

Basho

     Even  in Kyoto—
hearing the cuckoo's cry—
       I long for Kyoto.

 

[Tinker]

3 minutes ago, dr_con said:

so we have
more to say to each other than, “Wow”

AMEN!  This poem speaks to me and the marathon I've been on to complete my commitment to write a poem a day. (Note I said "poem" a day, not poetry.}  It has been a challenge and I've depended on prompts but it was good practice in writing and inspirational for me feeling the well had gone dry.  I feel remiss in my commentary to others, yours especially because we were kind of partners in the voyage.  But time restraints and new prompts had my head spinning.
 

 

8 minutes ago, dr_con said:

how it covers everything, a naked armor
like Basho’s cuckoo that destroys Kyoto
with teeth, Godzilla would envy

This is great imagery, I am familiar with Basho's cuckoo and for you to give it teeth to rival Godzilla, WOW 🤣   Forgive me but I still have a poem to write for this final day/

I really enjoyed reading this.  Thanks Juris.

~~Judi