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Cranes

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Misako Chida, The Paper Crane, via Wikimedia Commons
 

Cranes

Lyrical afterthoughts, these cranes
zephyr-cast across
miles. Paper
creatures,
sun-
caught

zephyr-cast across
river-moods,
shades of
blue
dream

miles. Paper
weathered
with
time,

creatures
sun-
caught–
gone.

I thought I’d try this form again using some words from Kerfe’s Random words. As soon as I saw “paper creatures,” I imagined a flock of paper cranes.

Garden at Giverny

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Claude Monet, The artist’s garden at Giverny (1900)

Garden at Giverny

Tree-strewn, dappled light, a caress
of ancient star-song
rests in pink-
petaled
bloom-
scents

of ancient star-songs–
echoed light
calling
you
home,

echoed light’s
dappled
dance
rests.

For Colleen’s Tanka Tuesday Ekphrastic Challenge, I played with the Fibonacci (or Fib) form, reversing it (8, 5, 3,2,1,1) and then repeating patterns, lines, and words. The prompt image is the above painting by Claude Monet.