What is it that you live inside, irreplaceable?
What is extolled the most in myth and fable?
What does Kore's return to Earth enable?
What is brief yet forever, eternal yet unstable?
The world is cruel to this, humanity made it
A lot shorter and fleeting for we lost our wit
To pollution and waste, driving into the hell-pit
Just to meet bloody greed's demand-sheet.
A thousand pink petals lie there in our garden
As I write. The breeze might be still, even then,
It's there -- softly shaking our bonsais as a train
Passes by in the distance -- in pleasure or pain.
The Lavender Tree beside me is red like my blood;
Autumn strikes me dry and cold, like a sorrowful flood--
Yet I write and talk about this, as, through soot and mud
It blooms forth and sings and rings in the Sakura's bud.
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This one's actually a little more tricky than you give it credit for, Rebel lol. I feel Persephone is the most clue as well- but it could still be a number of things. I think the most obvious one being Spring season as it's quite literal, but it fits awkward in the first and last line of the first stanza, which make up half the questions in all honesty. But it's the perfect answer considering the imagery of the later two stanzas. But I believe I've seen Spring as titles for some of the poems I'm yet to read so that's going to be my actual guess. Life is another good guess though, or something like blooming plants and trees. The former doesn't fit only in the first line of the the first stanza and well the later is a wierd guess overall.
This made me a completely different idea, but your reply to Tikaa cleared things a lot. Humanity didn't make it, humanity made it shorter. Definitely doubling down on the Spring guess now. Though I feel there must be a way to say it more clearly in the poem itself..
Bold imagery, pretty vivid and fitting if my guess is right!
This left like a mythical and nature praising touch to a series that's not had enough of it so far, great work!
Thanks for the explanations in the mail (also I like that the poems still function if you don't get all the references. Just nice little easter eggs. Or big easter eggs for ppl that are actually immersed in culture)
And in this one, I really like the way you phrase the first two stanzas. Especially the line abt Kore intrigues me.
My first thought was something like Space or Time (even if we had that before) or Environment. But then... "humanity made it" hmmm
Aww I really like the tone shift in the last two stanzas. I like how peaceful it sounds, even if we know (from the other poems) of the underlying stress.
Thanks for the review once again, Tika! :p
This one's actually pretty simple, like, just googling the entire third line about Kore should be enough lol. Also, there's a reference to a certain anime (that I was watching at the time) in the first line. Also, the entire second stanza is one compound sentence broken up by enjambment, you will get a better hint if you consider it that way. Also also, both the third and fourth stanzas are entirely dedicated to the imagery associated with *it*.
Thanks again, keep reading! :p
Hi there!
So I get the feeling that this is possibly a spinoff or written by a character in a different story? I'm not active on here that often so I'm definitely behind on a lot of things. Anyways, this really reads like a journal entry by a character in a story and honestly, I like it. That, to me, gives it a layer of mysteriousness that I find intriguing. The beginning sounds like a riddle, which again, I found interesting.
My favorite part is:
"To pollution and waste, driving into the hell-pit
Just to meet bloody greed's demand-sheet"
Even if this is from a fictional story, I think we can relate and understand those lines in today's world. It hits and sadly rings true.
So no critiques, it's well done!
Best wishes,
FireSpyGirl
Thanks for the review, FireSpyGirl! It's a part of the anthology I am writing for #NaPoWriMo26 , you can check out the list of poems from the very beginning under Related Items in your right! :p