ManicDDaily

I swore to myself (and this blog) that I would devote at least some of this month to a modified Nanowrimo of revising old manuscripts.  But… it’s really hard to get the steam up for a long project mid-work-week.  So, instead, here is my contribution to dVerse Poets “Form For All” Night, which today focuses on Man’yoshu poetry, a form of Japanese Poetry that includes variations dedicated to love/longing. There is a wonderful exposition of this particular tradition written by “Lady Nyo” a/k/a Jane Kohut-Bartels, that can be found here.

I’m afraid my picture turned out better than my poem, but here’s my own rough attempt:

Ladybug On Navy Shawl

A ladybug, deep
orange, lands on the navy
of my paisleyed shawl;
mountains uplift the view but,
because I cannot
see through eyes that turn green when
faced with color, I
mean, your eyes, all here pales, and
my mind looks past the
now to times when you watched it
with me, when the here,
because you were there, held such
wonders always, your quick breaths.