larks rise, exultation
of feathers harmonize,
celestial and wise
ready souls hear
blooming over grasslands,
larks fan, muted blossoms,
empty, weightless brahmans
leading souls home
larks roost in heaven’s tree
beyond thick cotton clouds
that hide mist peak of mount
when day is done
Colleen Chesebro is the host of Tanka Tuesday. Colleen says:
Select one of the animal collective nouns and write your syllabic poem using the collective noun. Remember, if you write freestyle poetry, please add your syllabic form to the same post. 🐎 🐈 🐩 🦃
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These are lovely.
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Sassy, thank you.
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Superb!
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Thank you :)
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You’re most welcome
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Beautifully written.
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Robbie, thank you :)
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Nicely done, Lisa.
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Thanks much, Dale. I like how this one turned out.
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Your poem is so visual! Love the imagery Lisa.
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Balroop, thank you very much :)
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These are really lovely, Lisa. I don’t really know larks–except from Romeo and Juliet.
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Thanks, Merril. I, likewise, only know them from literature and poetry.
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You’re welcome, Lisa. 🙂
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Gorgeous!
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Thanks very much, Gwen.
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Nice poem…from Hummingbirds the other day to Larks…love it.
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Thank you, they are beautiful birds.
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Larks are so poetic, Lisa. I really love how this Abhanga trio flows. It’s very lyrical. I wondered about larks, as well. Here’s what I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lark
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I just read this at wiki (and no, I did not read anything about larks anywhere before writing my poem, but I see I’m not alone in what their flight [and perhaps song, for others] inspires:
The lark in mythology and literature stands for daybreak, as in Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale”, “the bisy larke, messager of day”,[17] and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29, “the lark at break of day arising / From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate” (11–12). The lark is also (often simultaneously) associated with “lovers and lovers’ observance” (as in Bernart de Ventadorn’s Can vei la lauzeta mover) and with “church services”,[18] and often those the meanings of daybreak and religious reference are combined (in Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion, into a “spiritual daybreak”[19] to signify “passage from Earth to Heaven and from Heaven to Earth”.[20] In Renaissance painters such as Domenico Ghirlandaio the lark symbolizes Christ, in reference to John 16:16.[21]
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How interesting. I always wondered why so many poets wrote about larks. Thanks for sharing. I love birds and couldn’t say that I’d ever seen one. Thanks for sharing. 🩵
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I wonder if something I read or heard (the Shakespeare maybe) stuck in my memory cache? There is nothing new under the sun (said somebody.) You’re welcome, and I know I’ve never seen one.
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LOL! Well, I enjoyed your poem and the use of larks. Now, I have them stuck in my brain.
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p.s. Thank you, Colleen :)
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You’re so welcome, Lisa.
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Really lovely. Thank you.
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Thank you, Luanne :)
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You are welcome!
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