après le déluge
après le déluge
I will love you long
after the lock we affirmed
on Le Pont des Arts
has turned to rust… and the bridge?
a memory swept to sea…
you will have forgotten me.
© coolhermit 2022
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après le déluge
I will love you long
after the lock we affirmed
on Le Pont des Arts
has turned to rust… and the bridge?
a memory swept to sea…
you will have forgotten me.
(@guaj)A lot said in this little observation of (often) thoughtless trysts.
Love lockets cut off by council workers.
(@coolhermit)I kept to tanka format – it helps shape a poem as all extraneous words are eliminated – thanks 🙂
(@guaj)Its been a long while since I wrote a Tanka. Useful format. I might try it again.
(@coolhermit)yeah – I prefer tanka to haiku as it enables the writer to explore a little more deeply. a lot of my poems are set to the 5/7/5/7/7 format – I use it as a discipline as free verse can tend to loose usage 🙂
(@omecronon12)Well maestro. You did it again. A lot said – that’s right. I needn’t say more. It doesn’t get much better than this as far as I can tell.
(@coolhermit)Cheers, Omecronon – it’s going in me new book – thanks again. Rick