iPoetry-Paper Poetry Prompt | Tanka and Monoku

The Final Kiss

A Promise

Charcoal Art on Paper Lubna Yusuf

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.’ :

‘the Ghost of the past,’ a Collaborative Poetry Prompt Challenge on the Horizon for the Poetry…

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The Final Kiss has two Tanka poems and a Monoku finale to seal the haunting story in poetic verse.

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