Caveat: Nonnet #4 “beans”

I wrote another nonnet. My friend Bob commented that I seem to have a “knack” for them. I don’t know about that, but I enjoy doing them – they are constrained like haiku, and the constraints are syllabic rather than metric (a type of constraint I find more difficult to “do in my head”). The haiku form, nowadays, has a bit of a cliche feel in English, which these nonnets avoid.
(Poem #29 on new numbering scheme)

Consciousness
Speculating about my own mind:
moments of consciousness might be
like little fragments of light;
but no, that's wrong. Instead,
like so many beans,
we toss them up;
they begin
to fall
down.

– a nonnet
picture[daily log: walking, 7km]

One comment

  1. Bob Gehrenbeck

    This one is great as well! I like the juxtaposition of light and beans–a very unexpected combination. I’m very tired tonight–visiting Mark and Amy and staying up too late–and my mind feels like beans tossed up and following down, too.
    Mark and Amy say hi!

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