Through

A renga collaboration by guest poet
Katie Persephone Ryder & Catherin J Pascal Dunk¹

Open sky, blue, white;
Rolling, tumbling, on their way,
Motionless in speed.

Water vapour droplets cloud
together and drift apart.

Deep wide dark Ocean
Tumbling Rolling over under through;
Secrets lie silent.

What brick-bound evidence rots
in zones light never bothers?

Tears tearing down walls,
Rivers clear off embankments;
Drain apprehension.

Acid rain clears urban smut;
Graffiti dissolves and flows.

Black blocks overhead,
Smoothly slide under, take off;
below, Safely still.

Feeling is dark, until light
Come up from below, then bright.

Breathe, recoup, advance, 
Stand atop accomplishment,
Forsee future wins

Celebrate every lil thing—
Adulting, wearing some bling!

1. Katie P Ryder wrote the haiku and Catherin J Pascal Dunk wrote the couplets. Photos from Pexels Free Photos ↩︎