The day 25 prompt from Poetic Asides November Poem A Day Chapbook Challenge is to remix a previous poem —and various ways are suggested. I took a long piece of free verse — my ekphrastic poem of day 11 — and turned it into two different short, formal pieces.
Tanka:
I dream of a house
on a cliff above the
sea,
forest at its back
and green grass all
around it.
I dream it waits for
me there.
3x3x8
(My own invention: 3 lines, 3 rhymes, 8
syllables per line.)
The house above the
sea is old.
Its big windows gaze
from the cliff
and the forest rises
behind.
I wonder has the house
been told
that I’m the one it
waits for; if
it knows that it is
mine to find?
I dreamed of it
always: the gold
sunlight, the breeze a
little stiff,
the sea shining … time
out of mind.
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