Hay-stacked Soul

Hay-stacked Soul

In a dusty old barn your lost soul stays
buried under a thousand of dull dry hay
in doubt if there is hope to even pray.

When is the last time you solemnly pray?
during those blissful years your life once stayed?
when you harvest sweet fruits, not lifeless hay?

Life wheel’s now turned, you now live with stacked hay,
do you think your weary soul can still pray?
or will you choose a sea of grief soul-stay?

—you won’t stay in the midst of hay, just pray.

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Photo credit: Nick Scheerbart

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In response to Daily Post: Faraway and Napowrimo Day 7.

 

Our (optional) prompt for Day Seven comes to us from Gloria Gonsalves, who challenges us all to write a tritina.

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*Tritrina

The Tritrina is a very short form of the Sestina introduced by American poet Marie Ponsot.
The Tritrina is:

• stanzaic, written in 3 tercets followed by a single line envoy.
• metric, iambic pentameter.
• written with an enfolding end word pattern of
  stanza 1: 123
  stanza 2: 312
  stanza 3: 231
  envoi: 123