Martial Universe

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four horses drive us into the river
pocketbooks pulling the reins
sink deep into the mire

peace, like a tidal wave, flows in our hearts
we fill buckets with our hope
childlike innocence 

sinking sun sprawls low over the desert
human tears water the ground
earth's dry crust cries for rain

four horses drive us into the river
we fill buckets with our hope
earth's dry crust cries for rain

This poem was written for Wea’ve Written Weekly prompt #120. This week’s prompt comes from Val, who asks us to do the following:

  • Theme: The struggle of good versus evil;
    • either internally or externally;
    • either personally or within the universe;
    • either from experience or observation;
  • Form: Garland Kimo (see below for explanation)

Kimo?

The ‘Kimo’ is a short syllabic poetic form of three lines. The syllable count per line is 10/7/6.

Also, the kimo is focused on a single frozen image (kind of like a snapshot). So it’s uncommon to have any movement happening in kimo poems.

Garland Kimo?

The ‘Garland Kimo’ is a series of four ‘Kimo’ verses, in which the fourth Kimo verse is composed of lines taken from the previous three Kimo verses, using the 1st line from the 1st Kimo, the 2nd line from the 2nd Kimo, and the 3rd (last) line from the 3rd Kimo.

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