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Sketchbook 

Brian Strand, UK

 

 


A Quintile of Crystallines

# 2 Dayspring

Sunrise ripples across the lake,
memories surface as I awake.

 

 

# 5 Memories

Shrieks of seagulls die on the breeze;
childhood ebbs away on sunlit seas.

 

 

# 6 Feelings

Flowers of beauty within the heart
festoon the gestures we impart.

 

 

# 8 Aroma

Speaking volumes of words ,unheard,
Spring flowers,i n which all senses merge.

 

 

# 9 The Memorial

The requiem slowly brought a tear,
stripping each sense of its veneer.
 

 

 


A Trio of Tanka

winter blankets
the dark earth
makeshift banks
overhang in drifts—
snow fall icy blue

fine mist rises
moonlight shimmers
ripples on the loch—
spectral shadows
ebb to the shore

a single owl screech
breaks the silent
November night—
the hunter's moon
waxes blue

 

 


A Tetractys

Renewal

Rain
upon
frozen earth
metamorphised
emerging now as blue-bells in the glade.

 

 

 


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