Honing the Craft

A Place to Rest and Nest

A Place to Rest and Nest

Never seen a yellow kite
birds of prey are not so bright
soaring high by day, some night
with extraordinary sight.
Tagalog prehistory
tells us those birds caused the sea
to war with the sky, chiefly
to make earth, creatively.
                   ~~Judi Van Gorder


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Prompt I Dream of Yellow Kites "EIGHT - 04.10.23"  
Verse Form "Form of the week: Ambahan"  
         Tagolog Verse Form
                   1. Written in any number of lines
                   2. Syllabic, 7 syllable lines,
                   3. Rhymed, end rhyme as far as you can go.
Mythical Tagalog story of creativity. Kites cause a war between the sky and the sea which created the earth where the kite had a place to rest and nest.