All posts by nedhamson

Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Spires- Haiku 2024 #ThursdayDoors – Suzette B’s Blog

**FEATURED DOOR CLOSEUP. Rouen Cathedral Main Entrance, Typanum, “The Tree of Jesse. Image credit: chris-mueller | Stock

 

each door a chapter

majestic spires a quatrain

couplets in iron

Source: Spires- Haiku 2024 #ThursdayDoors – Suzette B’s Blog

Relativity, or: Theory – The Skeptic’s Kaddish 🇮🇱

Sijo

light and dark dance, defining truths 
through twilight's relativity;
opposites grant clarity 
revealing our world's contours; 
yet, experience, a nuanced verse 
eludes simple portrayal

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Source: Relativity, or: Theory – The Skeptic’s Kaddish 🇮🇱

Nostalgia – Anonymously Hal

I am nostalgic for that day, 
even though it never existed. 

In reality we were never there. 
We never walked down that street under fluorescent lights. We never sat surrounded by bushes on that wrought iron bench. 
Your hands never felt mine, our bodies never touched, and our eyes never did meet. 

That day... 
Those moments... 
All those memories are fictitious. 

Yet somehow, someway, 
I still remain able to miss it. 

Source: Nostalgia – Anonymously Hal