Tanka

Posted on March 17, 2022January 11, 2024 by Le Flaneur

the bell rings softly 
moving ever nearer now 
the bell rings louder
my ear so close to the door
your breath resonates softly 

                                               Châz

A Modern Flâneur

You are a stroller, walker, wanderer, idle and dispassionate observer of the vulgar and sullen sceptre of human repair.You will back-up, swerve, curve, climb or descend to near or far, but never to go straight and rarely slow, to step outside the alien apathy of the freshly colonized collective hubris of modernity.

You have emerged from the bohemian shadows, neither fish nor fowl, absent such suffocating boundaries as the flesh, incarnate from the repressed shallows of a disparate society to reanimate a new space born deep within the consciousness of restraint; rendering your clarion call.You are no longer the ambient observer of remote urbanity, but modernity on your own path to source all life's nuances both fleeting or remis.

Châz

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