1.
I invite you to a post about contrast today,
first please come this way for some shadow play....
2.
Next I'll lead you to where you can find my essay.
It's a story of meeting a woman in Japan one fine day;
it fits this weeks theme, as it contrasts between the old and the new.
Please click on here if that interests you:
The Tatami Edge
3.
The part 3 is a contrast between roots and the crown,
You know this flower called the Lotus whose beauty starts
underground.
From the mud to the sun it makes its way into the world.
The lotus root is a key to health in the colder seasons,
I've only just found,
while the flower can regulate it's temperature to high heat without making a sound.
The theme of contrast helps make sense of how things unfurl,
it's the black and the white and the dark and the light, the root and the crown and
the mud underground
that forms what is in balance, all things energized,
and now my poem is unwhirling and I realize
I haven't offered you the sandwich yet.
So here you go,
it's renkon, that's lotus root, on a baguette:
(OK it's brown rice bread, but that doesn't rhyme,
I'll make one for you if you visit one time)
Now, to direct you to other corner views...
Thank you Dana for hosting this week's C.V. on contrast, and Welcome back, Jane,!
