“Only the fish who leaps
sees the moon on the water”
The Oracle – Sam Hamill
It's hard to place you
even as tableau
never having known
that voice, that old man
a white crag, etching
clear lines in water.
Beatnik dipped in ink
shipped East cut a path
nimble as Bashō
peace in poetry
your heart's ease - stoppered
after one Spring rain.
The name rumbles on
in Cascadia*
no rhymes, no regrets.
Sakura poems
drift across the pond
blow through my window.
- see his poem “Of Cascadia” – a Pacific North West bioregion in the USA
For my MTB prompt we are writing A Tableau for Sam Hamill: a poetry style created by Emily Romano of 1 stanza or more, 6 lines per stanza, 5 beats, no rhyme, pictorial. Today is Sam Hamill’s birth day (1943-2018), so our poems could reference him, a poem of his or his style of poetry..
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