iPoetry-Paper Poetry Prompt | Tanka and Monoku
The Final Kiss
A Promise
Third drawer from left
under the wooden casket,
A cold touch of breeze
withering skin upon skin
your eyes hold mine in darkness
Papier-mâché stars
Dancing with the quiet night
I wrap your laughter,
With beauty and gentle grace
Upon your slender long neck
Sealing with the final kiss in a promise that releases all pain
Poet Lubna Yusuf
This is in response to the thrilling iPoetry-Paper Poetry Prompt theme: ‘The Ghost of the Past.’ :
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The Final Kiss has two Tanka poems and a Monoku finale to seal the haunting story in poetic verse.