Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

the end, the middle, begin again

Tina Stewart Brakebill

the end comes like purple haze  

with shards of red

penetrating the deep blue

inside the middle

inky black and sparkling white

swirl above the buried blue

begin again with shards of red

the inky black burns pink

and the deep blue rises again

Photo by Steshka Croes on Pexels.com

Written for dVerse MTB and David’s W3. I’m not sure if I did either justice, but I tried!

Laura, our host, at dVerse says:

Today’s MTB prompt is poetry with a colour motif:

  • take one or more literal colours (not a fancy colour name)
  • repeatthe colour word(s) throughout the poem (e.g. refrain; anaphora, epistrophe)
  • use colour synonyms
  • employ colour with its specific meaning to the poem’s theme
  • let your colour motif(s) also become symbolic

 

Lisa, our POW, at W3 says:

Fall always feels like a season of both endings and beginnings, doesn’t it? For this week, let’s explore those transitions in a Quadrille—a 44-word poem, a form first shared with us by the wonderful d’Verse Poets Pub.

Your poem can lean into endings, beginnings, or the mix of the two.

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37 thoughts on “the end, the middle, begin again”

  5. Tina, your quadrille flows like an expanded haiku cycle and made me think of Yosa Buson’s seasonal poetry. The colour shifts—purple haze, inky black burns pink—give your poem a cosmic, meditative pulse, so the return of shards of red and deep blue feels like perpetual renewal. I read this as a elegant loop of dissolution and rebirth.

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