Click here to watch and listen to the gorgeous water lapping the shores at Walden Pond, the inspiration for this, my first, tanka. It’s a bit of a found poem, as well, since I borrowed most of the first three lines from Tuesday’s SOL post about our visit to Walden Pond.
At the water’s edge
Lapping at the sandy shore
Sunlight stars sparkling
Would Thoreau welcome you here
Beachgoers, sunbathers, all
© Christie Wyman, 2017
To read my Slice of Life post from Tuesday about my visit to Thoreau’s beloved Walden Pond, click here.
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Please be sure to visit Doraine Bennett at Dori Reads for today’s Poetry Friday Roundup.
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The lapping sound brings me right to the ocean making the same sound but in a rushing sort of way, Christie. Ah, to be at Walden Pond with sunlight stars sparkling.
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Yes. That’s a wonderful connection of shores, Carol. Thank you!
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Love those “sunlight stars”! Love how you captured the peaceful, soothing feeling of being there in just a few words.
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Thank you, Jama. I appreciate the feedback and glad you enjoyed it. It is a calm and serene place, even when crowded!
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What a beautiful scene, how I long to be there! What a wonderful first attempt at a tanka, I think you’ve really captured it.
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Thank you, Jane. I very much appreciate the feedback. I hope you can visit this magical place one day. My best to you.
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Thank you so much, Jane. I greatly appreciate the feedback.
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Nice job! Sunlight stars is a beautiful image. Here in the south a pond in something you find in a farmer’s back yard. It’s more of a fishing hole. I’ve only been to Walden’s Pond once and was stunned by the size. I came away thinking, That’s not a pond!
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It is pretty big, isn’t it! 🙂
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It’s really more like a small lake, isn’t it? 🙂
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Those “sunlight stars” are so inviting! Well done, Christie!
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Thanks, Catherine. It was a fun write.
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“Sunlight stars” . . . lovely juxtaposition, Christie. The sound of water’s rhythms seems to reset the rhythms of my life. Listening to it, engulfed in sun’s warmth, I can’t think of a better place to be!
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Thank you so much, Alice, for your feedback. Greatly appreciated. My husband always says that all seems right with the world after having been at the water’s edge, especially the ocean, and I agree.
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I do wonder what Thoreau would make of his pond becoming a tourist destination…
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Pretty sure he would not approve, but alas…
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I expect Thoreau would be horrified. And honored. And horrified. LOL Poor man. There is no one we cannot celebrate to death.
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Lovely image and poem. I am pondering the question you end with. What would Thoreau think of Walden today?
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Congrats on your first tanka! Your “sunlight stars sparkling” are a lovely image and alliterative as well! You have me considering a field trip to Walden Pond!
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Come!
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