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#Flower #Heart #Ice #Mud #TankaWeak #Youth
Scattering shy leaves Skittering down two by two In Fall’s breeze they sink Forming such a golden path Blind-folded hearts can follow
To grasp at the root This longing for the seasons Hidden deep, deep down To say it’s just “Natural,” Would only scratch the leaf-tops
Lofting lazily Enter murky depths of feel Quivering eyelids Two heavy from the weight of The thoughts that lead me astray
To hide in plain sight Something we all yearn for, but Our differences Do not belong in the mud For mud cannot be polished
Archaic toiling Through endless character streams To drown deeper still Beneath black and white waters Until I breathe symbolly
I pray for the day When my mind is clear Silence, sweet silence Schemes and impulses forgone To live without a shadow
A midst cold classrooms Seemingly short dialect Audio-connect Slowly frozen hearts will drip As conversations bubble
Bickering tree frogs Endless croaking back and forth Dream a soothing song One where two branches can meet In this capital forest
The words are muffled and shifting… The pounding won’t stop, the fraye… I hold onto a thread, a little blu… The tension is mine; it is a pain… Frenzied energy drains from my fin…
Five points to this as stated thus… Five; to pick up things once falle… Four; to grasp all things from wir… Three; to greet, to cheat, and din… Two; to bind wild lovers with gold…
A sudden rain flux A faintly calling whisper To turn off eyelids Yet I cannot shake my dream For just another hour
Anticipation Generic butterflies swarm Twists, knots, fluttering They find no golden nectar Only number two pencils
The mind of a girl That swirling vertex of bright Is unreachable So we put up these steel walls When we could have built a bridge!
Is there something dark? Dark, dark, deep down inside me Something that keeps me Away from the center ring A divergent path indeed
Life’s obligations A daunting sea of turmoil With crest after crest I’ll hide in this briny shell Till the tide forgets my name