The Open Secret of Wayfaring: a #tanka-prose

If you are a wayfarer, you follow the Way. It is as simple, and as difficult, as that.

Did you think it would be complicated? or easy?

running brook

the rocks within eroded

smooth over time

phenomena on the path:

obstacle, or stepping stone?

for 8th August 2020 prompt: Gerry Muse #219 (occasional tanka prose)The Wayfarer

and Writersโ€™ Pantry #32: From Case Studies to Plague Poetry (Posted byย Magaly Guerrero)

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12 responses to “The Open Secret of Wayfaring: a #tanka-prose”

  1. gillena cox Avatar
    gillena cox

    Certaintly has to do with how you look at things and what answers you ascribe even before questioning

    Happy Sunday Frank

    Much๐Ÿ’love

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  2. msjadeli Avatar

    I hate to use a cliche here, but “it is what it is.”

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  3. Magaly Guerrero Avatar

    “as simple, and as difficult, as that.” One can spend hours and hours discussing this statement.

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  4. revivedwriter Avatar

    Nice one, Frank.

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  5. Rosemary Nissen-Wade Avatar

    Oh, I adore this! I think you managed to get the whole essence of the Tao into these few lines. I can’t pick out a favourite phrase or line. Each in turn, and at every re-reading, makes me catch my breath at its sheer perfection of both idea and expression.

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  6. sanaarizvi Avatar
    sanaarizvi

    Love this, Frank! ๐Ÿ™‚ We have to do what we have to do! ๐Ÿ’

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  7. Beverly Crawford Avatar
    Beverly Crawford

    On many vacations beside the tumbling Little Pigeon River I was ever fascinated with the stones, all smoothened and honed from their tumble down the mountainside. Now that I am in the last leg of my own journey, I liken myself to those stones…all my sharp edges are gone and I am a product of my journey. I loved your words, Frank!

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  8. Kestril Trueseeker Avatar

    This reminds me so much of my tea lessons, and how there is room for so much expression and meaning in the movements. I may be sad when my tea bowl is empty, but that just means there’s room to add more tea.

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  9. Humblekind Poet Avatar

    i’d say it’s a stepping stone. the path is now easy for traversing? btw, nice piece of literary art.

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  10. thotpurge Avatar

    The wayfarer just follows the way- I like that thought!

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