Poem: "Gone to Seed"
This is today's freebie, inspired by a prompt from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
siliconshaman. It also fills the "love" square in my 12-23-21 card for the Story Sparks Fest Bingo. It is written in memory of my mother.
"Gone to Seed"
-- a tri-tires
The love-summer days of maidenhood
blossomed with flowers in her dark hair,
music falling from her fingertips.
She strode the world in her motherhood,
striking back to defend her family,
wielding words and numbers like swift swords.
She came to her cronehood with head high
and left a field full of memories:
picture complete, flowers gone to seed.
* * *
Notes:
tri-tires
three-thirds, meaning "complete"
three- *tri
-- Proto-Celtic
PIE *tréyes (fem. *tisres, neut. *tríH₂) "three"
Celtic OIr trí (fem. téoir), W tri (fem. tair, teir) "three"
-- Proto-Indo-European
The tri-tires is a Terramagne-Pictish form has three verses, each with three lines, and nine syllables per line. A type of memorial poem, it traditionally mentions the three phases of life: youth, maturity, and old age. The name translates to "three-thirds," meaning "complete."
siliconshaman. It also fills the "love" square in my 12-23-21 card for the Story Sparks Fest Bingo. It is written in memory of my mother."Gone to Seed"
-- a tri-tires
The love-summer days of maidenhood
blossomed with flowers in her dark hair,
music falling from her fingertips.
She strode the world in her motherhood,
striking back to defend her family,
wielding words and numbers like swift swords.
She came to her cronehood with head high
and left a field full of memories:
picture complete, flowers gone to seed.
* * *
Notes:
tri-tires
three-thirds, meaning "complete"
three- *tri
-- Proto-Celtic
PIE *tréyes (fem. *tisres, neut. *tríH₂) "three"
Celtic OIr trí (fem. téoir), W tri (fem. tair, teir) "three"
-- Proto-Indo-European
The tri-tires is a Terramagne-Pictish form has three verses, each with three lines, and nine syllables per line. A type of memorial poem, it traditionally mentions the three phases of life: youth, maturity, and old age. The name translates to "three-thirds," meaning "complete."