Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge poses the prompts “Eerie” and “Costume.” So appropriate, with Halloween around the corner. See if you can guess which short story inspired this tanka:
Eerie moonlit mist
guest in a red death costume
at the masquerade
how many tomorrows will come
before the clock’s final gong?
UPDATE: for dVerse Poets Pub’s Tuesday Poetics, too!
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Good question about the number of remaining tomorrows.
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Thanks, Frank. Isn’t it amazing how so many of us presume we have so many?
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Indeed, we were on the same wavelength! I like the sharp, to the point style.
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Thanks, Charley!
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Hmmm – quite Poe-etic! (My kiddos will be reading Cask next week – bwahahaha!)
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Hahaha! Glad you enjoyed it!
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Just coming from Charley and leaving the name of the author in the comment I knew immediately. I have spent many sleepless nights with the memory of this story.
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I always think of Gibran and a segment of his work from The Prophet, On children, where tomorrows are concerned.
“For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
Everyone’s tomorrows are limited, we just don’t know how much so.
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A Red Death Mask….and when the clock strikes midnight?
Very Poe like is right.
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Thanks!
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Poe! Quote the raven never more! LOL! Well done, Frank. Excellent Tanka. 😀
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Thanks, Colleen!
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how many tomorrows will come
before the clock’s final gong?
One may not wish to be thinking too much on returning to our Maker as one is very much saddled with daily chores!
Hank
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Indeed. Yet there it is!
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You’ve captured so much in this concise piece with the setting, the moment and thought provoking question. Thanks for joining in with the prompt. 🙂
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Thank you, Mish!
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Excellent Frank! The question of life in just a few words. Ps ( I actually half-turned to see who was behind me!)
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Thanks, Vivian. BTW he’s still behind you! 😆
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Oh no!!!
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So true, how many tomorrows?
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Indeed! Thanks for reading!
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Your most welcome!
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