Bluebird Heart

(c) Kim Nelson

Bluebird Heart

Bluebird heart, hid in the dark, singing sun out of the sleet.
Blue nest deep, twigging cold bones, tumbles up its meaning in dreams.
Bluebird heart, child's black-bead eye smiling, testifying songs can't freeze.

~January 2013

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Sunday Mini-Challenge: The Visual Art of Kim Nelson

This poem is written in the sijo form, a Korean form traditionally used for sung ballads, introduced to me by Kerry O'Connor. It is a three line syllable counting form with midline ceasuras(breaks) to form a poem of phrases. Kerry explains it in detail here.

Name of Water

Name of Water

My lips move in your naming

soft as foam on curling seas.

Summer surf devours promise;

sand dissolves, and liquid, leaves.

Autumn ebbs in the silver moonlight;

I'm left only winter words.

~October 2012

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Sunday Mini-Challenge: Sijo

My attempt at a sijo, a form of Korean syllable counting poetry, with groups of alternating phrases. For full details, see Kerry's excellent explanation at the above link.

 Image: Umhalanga Beach, (c) Jaime Clark

Used with permission