Wicker Basket Empty: A Pantoum for Thursday Poets Rally Week #29

All week I have been "meaning" to write a pantoum for the Thursday Poets Rally and today, at the last moment, my poem is complete.

Jingle is the organizer of the rally - it is a phenomenal opportunity for poets to gather, write and encourage one another. Check it out here.

Wicker Basket, Empty

 

Wicker basket empty except for the checkered table cloth

Buckle the life jacket to retrieve the nuggets from the water

Messenger river stones skipped into the watery waistline

There, there - see the traces, the silvery blue outlines

Buckle the life jacket to retrieve the nuggets from the water

Hear it, the what's missing between the shouting silence

There, there - see the traces, the silvery blue outlines

Seeking nameless, nearly formless, gooey solid bricks

Hear it, the what's missing between the shouting silence

Found beside the empty swallow's nest in the Linden tree

Seeking nameless, nearly formless, gooey solid bricks

Balance restored, knee bent, sole flat against the inner thigh

Found beside the empty swallow's nest in the Linden tree

Mulberry tree hides it swallows it, there beneath the massive leaves

Balance restored, knee bent, sole flat against the inner thigh

Crackling dryness smoothed edges guide the path to discovery

Mulberry tree hides it swallows it, there beneath the massive leaves

Wicker basket empty except for the checkered table cloth

Crackling dryness smoothed edges guide the path to discovery

Messenger river stones skipped into the watery waistline

 

Comments

[Eric Alder]

How can we do pantoum in blogs? Nobody can see what we're pretending to do! Oh wait, that's pantomime - my bad!

Nice idea - there's always room for one more poetry venue.

And yes, Jingle IS a great person to help draw 'em in!

[Jingle]

it takes me a while to finish reading your piece,
I have to say, you have gone deep in nature and dug deep in portraying the relation between human and the surroundings.

a work in depth,
I admire your gift in writing it.

[Jingle]

a beautiful poem,
I appreciate your participation...
Happy Wednesday!

[Olivia]

While reading your Love with the Nature, I couldn't help myself singing to the lines.. They were perfect lines for a Happy Poem.. So artistically expressed your joys and experience..
Beautiful
xox

[Sina]

a modern Shelley or even a post-modern Wordsworth
good work
:)

[2zpoint]

Your piece reminds me of the peace I felt just getting away from everything while I was diamond hunting...I didn't find any but I was able to clear my head from all the clutter just sitting in my little area screening dirt! :)