Geese

Geese crying in the sky

strange voice of pain

sadly reading  

the subtle calligraphy

their flight produces 

against the foam of clouds

in the ocean above

the meaning of this

is utterly unknown 

but it is heart-rending

and when heavens

become still again

it does feel as though 

a curtain of haze was falling

on the last act

of a human tragedy

Claude Lopez-Ginisty

+

Illustration: Estampe d'Hokusai, 

Crédit