Day 16:
Long Ago Glow
Sometimes, like tonight, I despise the light
Smothering the glow of grandmother souls.
Not so long ago night was not our foe
To be slit and slain by electric stains.
Toss me back through time to a Sixty-nine
Where dark was a wild and savage moon child,
All sopping in shade, bare feet upon blades,
A giggling grimoire with eyes full of stars.
Heaven used to be a flickering sea
Full of star frost streams and shooting star dreams.
Oh to spin and whirl, a silhouette girl,
Stare into the heart of glittering dark
Till touch tilts away. To fall unafraid.
To flat grass and grin while grandmothers spin
A round dance on high held universe wide,
Emblazoning glee cross eternities.
The decades have flown. And now we've outgrown
The soft stardust shine of grandmother kind.
Sometimes, like tonight, I despise the light
That strangles the glow above and below.
ABOUT THIS POETRY FORM
Masnavi is typically a very long spiritual or mystical poem, Arabic, Persian, or Turkish.
Happens in couplets (two line forms)
Each line is actually a half line and the rhymes fall in the same line.
Each line is 10 or 11 syllables.
Rhymes: aa/bb/cc/dd/etc
No line lengths or restrictions
Wow, this took a while to write because my thoughts kept veering off onto other ideas. I had to keep pulling myself back to the original train of thought. It was a good exercise though as the ideas and images began to freely flow. I am not even entirely sure I wrote this properly but this is what came of it.
