Japanese Copper in tray


Several poems have been rreceived in response to this natural piece of Japanese copper mounted in a custom-made ceramic base. We hope our latest stone display will evoke sufficient feelings that you will create and submit wonderful haiku and other types of short poetry about stones. You are welcome to continue to submit poems about our August chrysanthemum flower stone or any others.


the whore copper

many a furnace chimney

has burnt their souls 


Jim Young, U.K.

high spires 

in the silence 

warm sea 


Barbara Anna Gaiardoni, Italy

dirge— 

dripping from the pine 

icicles  


 Hifsa Ashraf, Pakistan

tree gum thickening the plot of existence 


Hifsa Ashraf, Pakistan

a red scabbard

forged around the fire―

words flare then burn out


David McMurray, Japan

meeting an alien

in glittering disguise -

my cosmic fail


Natalia Kuznetsova, Russia

a small moment of happiness

reaches the sky 


Marina Bellini, Italy

con un dito indica

una stella al figlio-

cielo d’inverno


Severa Disingrini, Italy 

shadow darkness

she lights up her faith

to stand upright


Pravat Kumar Padhy, India

shirshasana

on my rear-view mirror

AMBULANCE


Pravat Kumar Padhy, India


that coppery scent 

of blood... 

catching myself 

on a stalagmite 


Tracy Davidson, UK



a witch's profile 

etched in stone 

as petrified 

as all those 

she once cursed 


Tracy Davidson, UK



how her bony finger 

always seemed to find me 

in a crowded classroom 


Tracy Davidson, UK



after the earthquake 

a holy shrine 

defying gravity 


Tracy Davidson, UK  



whirlwind…

her copper hair

soars skyward


Margaret Tau, USA

stone gallery

trying to remember

geology teacher


Wieslaw klarlinski, Poland



obra cadabra 

his master's face 

disappearing 


Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo, Philippines

all that's left 

after the queen's 

last breath: 

her rainbow-spouting 

copper alicorn 


Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo, Philippines 


 

his copper wand 

can't undo 

the magic spell 

of his love 

undoing 


Lorelyn De la Cruz Arevalo, Philippines 



a prayer raised   

to touch the sky— 

eternal thanksgiving 


Neena Singh, India 

on your face 

the kintsugi of time... 

joy and sorrow 


Neena Singh, India

ceramic base

how broken 

like you

we all are… 

wabi-sabi 


Neena Singh, India

acid moorland stream…

milky thimble of nectar

cascades from foxglove


Monica Kakkar, India and USA


lace of seasons past…

free standing icicle pours

shard in chardonnay


Monica Kakkar, India and USA 


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