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Gogyohka Poem Suite

A chapter in the book 2024 Japanese Poetry

Child of Yesterday

by Gypsy Blue Rose


I pray for abused children may they be rescued

child of yesterday

trying to stay afloat

above the surface

of the past's pools

in her aquamarine eyes

 

 

 

pristine porcelain skin

made to be touched

by loving hands

but evil grabbed her first

and ravished her innocent soul

 
 
 

lost in furious seas 

of deviant intent

drowning in venomous

hate and lust

of tarnishing abominations

 
 
 

all she wanted and deserved

was pure and unconditional love 

and out of white cotton clouds 

 benevolent God's hands 

saved her innocent soul

 

 

 




"I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again" - John Geddes, A Familiar Rain


Gogyohka is a five-line free-style Japanese poetic form with no strict rules on syllable count but as brief as possible. Any theme. Lines are grammatically connected. Alliteration, personification, and metaphor are okay but never rhyme. Japanese poets have written gogyohka since the 1910s. However, they did not name the form until 1983 by poet Enta Kusakabe. === source = writers digest ===source=wikipedia

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