Sacrifice

 

Daylight wanes as moon rises, mother offers her child last crumb of bread

 

This is written in the style of “American Sentences”; a poetic form developed by Allen Ginsberg in the mid-1980′s as a response to the haiku.   The challenge is to use two images and put them in juxtaposition in order to create a sort of tension.   American Sentences is seventeen syllables across the page.

To me, this is similar to a mindful moment or small stone.

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© rgb for “On Dragonfly Wings with Buttercup Tea”, 2011 – 2014

 

Prompt:
Sacrifice

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