hosts: Sanjuktaa Asopa & Vandana Parashar
high tide
the pile of words
outside a poem
---- Lorraine A Padden
(Presence, Issue #68, November 2020)
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Updated: Apr 18, 2022
hosts: Sanjuktaa Asopa & Vandana Parashar
high tide
the pile of words
outside a poem
---- Lorraine A Padden
(Presence, Issue #68, November 2020)
Wonderful poem!
Lorraine says-
“Here's a bit of background:
I was interested in how wave action shapes a shoreline, and how I might juxtapose the movement of water and sand with the process of writing haiku – what shifts, what's taken away, what remains.”
Ab lovely!
Beautifully resonating. :))
WoW!! This is so beautiful. Amazing juxtaposition! Loved 'a pile of words' .
The whole poem justifies the experience of 'high tide' with the pile of words by the common man.
I feel there is a poem inside a poem. There are three layers. One is the outer beauty, the second is the inner beauty and the third is the individual perspective.
Outer beauty reflects the way one perceives the poem from outside.
(the whole poem)
The inner beauty lies in each line of the poem; its construction. (each line has its own weightage) As of here, you take any line; it throws light upon a wider image - the zooming in and zooming out.
The final layer is th…