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Poetry Friday : December 12, 2016.

It was just past 5 AM; sunrise was more than two hours away, and the temperature hovered just above freezing. Like a shroud, fog wrapped itself around everything. While family slumbered, I stepped onto my back porch to experience a few predawn wintry moments — the piercing cold, the heavy dampness pungent with wood smoke, the woodsy darkness. I was particularly drawn to the dark silhouette of a large fir. I clicked a cell-phone photo. Inspired, I returned to my cozy kitchen, poured a cup of coffee, and wrote —

in fog-dimmed brightness
stark silhouettes reach skyward
while sunrise awaits

I paired my haiku with the cell-phone photo for a haiga.

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Later, pondering the dark stillness of those morning moments, I wrote a couplet to go with my haiku and —voila!— I had a tanka.

in fog-dimmed brightness
stark silhouettes reach skyward
while sunrise awaits
as kinfolks slumber in peace
it seems time’s ticking has ceased
© 2016 Alice Nine


Tabatha Yeatts at “The Opposite of Indifference
is hosting the Poetry Friday Roundup today.
Thank you, Tabatha Yeatts!

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