A VALENTINE TANKA
The Mountains are Red!
Nature, my lover, breaks my heart open
Dawn reaches high tide
Clasped coffee blesses my hands
Mountains seek my gaze
Trails and trees Valentine rose
Awed heartbreak tastes of candy
©Jenine Bsharah Baines 2022
Before I continue, has anyone experienced Medium ‘eating’ a draft???
Oh, well, let’s see what happens this go round…
Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她), thank you for the prompt on “heartbreak.” The Muse was in the mood to hike a different path with this. Hope you enjoy this tanka, dear readers, as much we did creating it.
Love, as we will discuss, is a power — perhaps the greatest power that we have to give to one another. Love is capable of restoring a person to the threads of life, to inspiring a person to want to live, and to giving someone (including ourselves) the capacity to endure the unendurable. Love is no ordinary force. Indeed…
