menacing storm clouds
move across the flat plains
with no sign of stopping...
all those years that
I lived without kindness
first published in American Tanka
photo taken and copyrighted by Tabsnoopy
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Very touching.
Posted by: Robert | January 31, 2008 at 07:34 PM
As I read it, the clouds are the more menacing because they suggest the possibility of more years without kindness yet to come. Evocative, and great photo-verse interaction.
Posted by: Bill | January 31, 2008 at 11:07 PM
I like the ambiguity. Thanks, Aurora.
Have I been so cruel?
:-)
Posted by: Yu Chang | February 01, 2008 at 05:50 PM
Thanks, all.
Bill, you are very right. This poem is about the immediate years after I was orphaned, until I was of age to go out on my own.
Posted by: aurora | February 01, 2008 at 06:17 PM