Free use image by Manny Moreno on Unsplash
long ago I dreamed
how I would shake up the world
I would be adored
dance floor at the club
shakes as boiling hormones rise
electronic beat
disappointment comes
everything is illusion
dark night of the soul
something blue rises
remembering devotion
to others' false gods
I reflect on life
with every foolish action
I wished to be loved
~cie~
the prompts
Prompt: Something Blue
From the post:
The cadralor is a poem of 5, unrelated, numbered stanzaic images, each of which can stand alone as a poem, is fewer than 10 lines, and ideally constrains all stanzas to the same number of lines. Imagery is crucial to cadralore: each stanza should be a whole, imagist poem, almost like a scene from a film, or a photograph. The fifth stanza acts as the crucible, alchemically pulling the unrelated stanzas together into a love poem. By “love poem,” we mean that your fifth stanza illuminates a gleaming thread that runs obliquely through the unrelated stanzas and answers the compelling question: “For what do you yearn?”
So...yeah. I did five Senryus, each of which are related to the photograph, to each other, and to the gleaming oblique thread running through them.
There are five interrelated three-line tales. If this is a major no-no, the blog owner is welcome to remove my link. That is, if WordPress even allows me to share it.
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I often wonder... where those early desires and dreams go. I do not think they are wasted. Maybe they become stars, guiding others on... maybe they sink into the ground like seeds to rise in another life... but I do know the dark hole that they leave... right this moment, my desire is that that painful place in me become holy. And I chuckle at my that bit of a pun that emerged... hole - holy. Thanks Cie. This was really valuable to me.
ReplyDeleteTrust that you are loved ~ the Spirit surrounds your soul ~ ~ Xo
ReplyDeleteLiving in the moment,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
I LOVE your poem today, never heard of a 'cadralor' - I looked it up and it's a new form I see... your poem is really awesome in all ways - as single little poems, as a whole ánd with the photo - great job!!
ReplyDeletei wished to be loved- the gleaming thread that runs through all our lives. your poetry is beautiful, thought provoking and soulful. today-may we all feel loved by being love.
ReplyDeleteThe darkness here suggests that there's plenty of room for light to replace it, which is what I hope will happen. Blessings.
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