Dying Day

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I drink
fiery orange
the setting sun dancing
in the blue sky crackling like a
bonfire
I smell
the sun’s dying day breathing in
the water’s green prisms
scattered across
the lake

picture by Lisa Paul

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#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 20, Synesthesia, 7/8/25
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27 thoughts on “Dying Day”

  7. These were my favorite lines of your lovely poem, “I smellthe sun’s dying day breathing inthe water’s green prisms” I hadn’t thought of a day dying, but it does, and it’s gone forever.

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  12. I love your choice of form for this poem, the first half “I drink / bonfire” and second “I smell / the lake” – it completes the reflection…. I am not always good at comments explaining what I mean, poetry is a feeling for me that I find difficult to explain, – but I really appreciated this …

    💞Suzanne

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