Hello to Sadje who is out guest host for Tanka Tuesday.
Sadje says “October is a special month for me as it’s the birth month of my husband and my son. Being married and then having my children made a huge difference in my life. So I’d like you to write a syllabic poem about something that brought a big change in your life.”
I have written a “tanka sequence.” The Japanese use the word Rensaku for any combination of two or more tanka that are somehow related. This Rensaku is about how breaking my back for the second time and how
Alone in the dark
I awake to pain and cold.
As fear takes over
All clocks have stopped frozen
Crumpled like a broken doll
Hubby panics lost.
All logical thought flies off
Like a flock of birds
Help me, call an ambulance
Legs don’t work he carries me
Help arrived in twos
Reassuring they debate
I am slipping out
The big black birds circle me
Fear looms large like rain clouds.
Lights, noise,red and blue
Bright, white, people moving me
I float above them
Slowly tendrels pull me back
How the grip holds me, grounded
Is it years or weeks
Who knows it’s a morphine blur
Three operations
A long road not for the weak
As in all things I adapt.
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