Hi,
It’s been a while, over a year, since I’ve posted a new poem or participated in a challenge. I am slowly getting back to writing after a reflective poetry break. This is for the Tanka Tuesday Poetry Challenge, Music Inspires, and here are the instructions:
Hello everyone willowdot21 here, welcome to Tanka Tuesday.
Now I have made this style up and I do not have a name for it but I have used it more than once. It’s quite simple so here are the Rules.
- Chose a piece of music.
- The music can have lyrics or not as you choose.
- The music can be of any genre.
- Then write a syllabic poem about how the music either makes you feel or what it suggests to you.
I was intrigued by the idea of writing a poem to a song. This is a haibun which is prose poetry connected to a haiku. This isn’t a haiku but written in that format. The song is the instrumental of “Imagine.”
Imagine the End
The words reverberated over the strewn bodies from the discarded radios. The war was over, but who won? Shay’s gaze met her enemy’s steely blue eyes. Guns still pointed at each other, she gently lowered her weapon and dropped it to the ground. Exhausted, she bowed and held her breath, waiting for the expected pain, but none came. The enemy’s gun fell with a tinny clunk next to hers. Gasping in the coppery air, she studied her enemy. The young man covered in the death of tarnished ideals reached out his hand. She hesitated, assessing their surroundings. They were the lone figures remaining, the only souls to have escaped the devastation. Shay accepted his extended hand with a nod.
hands tightly clasped
advanced into the unknown
imagining peace
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