Morning Dodoitsu
My name is Jamie Lee Hamann and I started sharing poetry articles back in 2013. Every year I share a poem a day in April.
Morning Dodoitsu
Dodoitsu is a Japanese syllabic form with four lines where the first three lines are seven and the last is five syllables.
Decided to walk alone
onto a well kept sidewalk
under the afternoon sun
snow crests the mountain.
Bird song returns to my ears
a fresh clean air fills my lungs
I lightly touch tender leaves
the pull of springtime.
These pushing buds mean so much
this struggle has new meaning
a need to remove all grey
greet sunshines garden.
Within moments the wind whoops
when the grey storm clouds bring hail
covers up white mountain tops
here I walk alone.
I decide comfortable home
offers what I need right now
and a chill that sneaks in
through down of my coat.
Grey clouds are never alone
they travel and stretch for miles
to bring this rain or this snow
where I am just one.
© 2020 Jamie Lee Hamann