Earth, sky, stillness.
The evening unfolds
the rorschach of the moon.
Earth, sky, stillness.
Moon shares its moment
bonding wonder.
The evening unfolds
the same, yet different
the moon won’t say why.
[T]he rorschach of the moon.
always tells
if our piano is in tune.
image: full moon taken on 071322
Today’s form is a troiku, where I will use Samuel Peralta’s first face of twenty-eight from his exquisite, Twenty-Eight Faces of the Moon. In case you don’t go to the troiku link, I will be taking each line of Samuel’s original and using them to begin each of my three haiku.
Mish is today’s host of dVerse’ Open Link Night. Thank you, Mish, for the work you put into this prompt.
Brendan is the host of earthweal’s Open Link Weekend.
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Interesting take Li.
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Thank you, Sadje!
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You’re welcome
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So lovely. And the original is exquisite ⭐️🌙
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Thank you, Paula. And yes, it is!
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Beautiful, Li. 🙂
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Thank you! ❤
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My favourite is the 2nd haiku. Exquisite, Li. 🙂
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Thank you very much, Kitty. Glad you like it.
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BRAVO. WELL DONE
Much💖love
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Gillena, thank you! ❤
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For some reason, I never tire of looking at the moon or reading about it! I enjoyed both poems, great form here! 💫🌛💫
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You and me both on the moon. It always surprises me where it is in the sky. The other night as I closed the blinds I saw its pretty crescent farther west than expected. Thank you, Tricia ❤
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My pleasure, Lisa! ❣️
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This is beautiful. One needs all th wonder we can get and the moon is good at granting it. Smiles.
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Thank you, Sherry, indeed.
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Wonderful flow to this. (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe.
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I love troiku form…well done! Lovely imagery.
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Rall, thank you very much. I’m writing troiku for the Poetry Postcard Festival this year and am enjoying it immensely.
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“[T]he rorschach of the moon.
always tells
if our piano is in tune.”
An absolute peach of a verse!
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Veera, thank you so much, glad you enjoy it.
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Love the last line especially…
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Thank you, Rajani, glad you connected with it.
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The allure of the moon has captured stargazers since the beginning of time. It stirs the heart of poets. I loved what you did here.
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Truedessa, that wonder we have is wondrous. If we could only harness that universal connectedness in ways that can benefit our mother earth. Thank you ❤
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I love the reflections in this poem. And the phrase “the rorschach of the moon”.
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Sunra, I fell in love with that when I read Samuel’s series also. What a way to set the tone of the series — and then he goes on to show us ❤
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Ohhh and now I’ve read it too and it’s exquisite ❤ Thank you for sharing it.
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❤
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I love this, Lisa. I read it, like, four times 🙂
Then I went to read the original – what a beautiful poem!
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Dale, I’m pleased that you’re pleased. It is a magnificent poem and I’m glad Mish included it in her dVerse post ❤
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So good. Both! 💞
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A gorgeous poem, Lisa…so concisely drawing off of each of those lines. I especially love the second stanza, that secretive moon keeping us wondering.
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Many thanks, Mish, and they wouldn’t exist without your sharing Samuel’s exquisite poetry!
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Loved Samuel Peralta’s verse and you picked the best one to do full justice to it.
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Punam, thank you very much. I’ve been doing troiku since July for POPO2022 and so when I saw Samuel’s first one and loved it my mind went to troiku.
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You are welcome, Li. Yes, I have noticed that. It is a lovely form and reading yours I have been tempted to try it.
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Punam, the poems I am writing for POPO won’t be published until October, but I have been doing a few here and there also. I absolutely think you should try it.
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You have shared a few troiku here, if I am not wrong. Sure, ma’am, will give it a try. 👍🏼🙂
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Punam, all 4 haiku together make 1 troiku, which the creator of the form likened to the original being the sleigh and the 3 haiku that follow the horses pulling the sleigh. Please do and let me know when you do!
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Thanks for sharing, Li. When I do, I will link back to this post.
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Very nice, Lisa. I, too, like the “rorschach of the moon” line. 🌞
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Samuel does have a way with words. Not sure if you heard but an anthology of dVerse poets from a few years back is headed to the moon in the near future, thanks to Samuel (who used to be a dVerse host!)
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Impressive! 🌞
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Thanks, Lisa!
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This is a lovely expansion of the original piece by SP.
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Imelda, thank you ❤
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