Paper Crane
A Poem on Peace and Hope
This is for Poppy's prompt, origami, and Kenny Penn's Haikuplet challenge. There's still a little time to join in the fun!
Origami. The word brings to mind a bird often crafted using this Japanese paper craft - the crane.
The crane, often seen foraging in the waters of lakes, is a captivating bird that represents peace and hope. And we need lots of it as the world becomes increasingly turbulent.
Maintaining a sense of hope is not an easy task these days, but we can keep that sense of positivity going with support and faith in Providence.
May cranes land in our waters. Please enjoy this Haikuplet.
Thousand flying cranes
Wings move when faithful winds lift
Light, buoyant feathers
Feathered flying cranes
Graceful flocks scale calm waters
Sanguine birds nesting.
About the Creator
Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin
Hi, i am an English Language teacher cum freelance writer with a taste for pets, prose and poetry. When I'm not writing my heart out, I'm playing with my three dogs, Zorra, Cloudy and Snowball.
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'20/20'
"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
Comments (9)
This was such a calming and gorgeous feeling poem!
Lovely poem about the peace cranes… I used to make them for my children.
Marvelous take!!
Forgot to include congratulations on TS⭐️🎉🥳👏
This is beautiful and incredible-from a poetry standpoint and from, and for, a birdwatcher!! Well done, Michelle! Totally shows us the scene. ❤️
So beautiful and soothing.
I didn't know cranes were a symbol of peace and hope. Loved your Haikus!
So beautiful
A beautiful concentration of imagery!