Tetrahedral
By David Ishaya Osu
Published 18 August 2025
easily a veil on your way not different from your faith in sugar
the strangest baluster / made our morning
double amber placed beside calke green mugs enough to match family portraits in december
after all merciful / to the slightest splendour
greenish a sight, you say more words at the third landing unlit
it is no seabird / this time crying
having seen the missed life in a trombone utterly sound as a nearby stream running
perhaps not the bench nor the oddest thanks you smell spirals mercilessly flowering
in a fresh soak / in inescapable hexes
briskly blue clouds do not return in silence our first days dry off
twice the trial of new buckles / we play
we flick grasses upside down unlike northward winds or white vinegar
partly listening / to misted gillyflowers
we light a bridleway closest to us the honking ducks not flying away
C.
next to a contralto in the rain steam pours out of orange transparency
countless twiddles / start an old dawn
at the last break of amasi scones fingers hold nothing but a pant
sorely sleepless / before charred pulps
we take a boat and continue humming where there is a song, a star and sand
off our faces / squarely rhyming
will prevail or pour our tea back into inaudible waves crashing southwards
Visit a waterbody nearby (a lake, a sea, or even a bowl of water in your kitchen), and make a list poem of the things you cannot see or hear.
David Ishaya Osu
#30in30 writing prompt
The poem pours from the heart as it pulses across paths and
breakables. One minute I step outside fresh memories, the next
minute my aching foot gets close to a creek nursing new and old
fragments. The poem takes all directions possible and impossible.
David Ishaya Osu
#30in30 #PoetryMonth