Around the Day in 8 Worlds Options

[Guest_Tao_*]

Around the Day in 8 Worlds

Po,
daystar thaws into his fluid bed
as hula skirts brush sandy flames,
milling over buried dinner in salt air.

Night,
roos roost ‘round rusty Rock,
a late snack, neatly stacked three-layer cake
sliced in half by her fall.

Yiea,
moonlit child snuffs out the pyre
in his dragon-head paper lamp,
wishing upon himself in her Shanghai.

Notte,
sailor-tailored boatman ushers in
his last fare, the engaged travelers,
in his Venetian gondola.

Nacht,
music is played in minuet,
closing stanza of Black Forest finale,
to echoing applause on Salzburg’s banks.

Nui,
erects the Eiffel in luminescence
under slippery beret on the artist’s easel
with each homesick tug of accordion.

Noche,
cascading rosa petals from
flamenco dancer pluck solitary guitar
while she spirals to warm her dress.

Oiche,
tallies Druid’s telling annulus
the light of another day in an
almanac of timeless moments.

And she speeds, across the Atlantic
over sunken Atlantis,
forever a step behind,
chasing his wake.

All but the last stanza starts with the local word for "night."

[Guest_Tao_*]

Good Morning Grace and Daniel,

Thank you both for visiting. And thank you for your title suggestions, most ingenious !

Around the Night in Eight wee Words – good one, Daniel!

I’ll provide my reason for using Around the Day in the title. See if that makes sense to you?

I didn’t want to mention “night” again in the title or within each stanza since the word was already being used to create a repeating structure.

Obviously, night is “her” throughout this piece. But there is one more actor in this play, though not mentioned until the last line of the last stanza. The night follows her opposite – him – daylight, thus chasing his “wake.” The two of them combined, and going around the world once, is “a day.” I was going to call it “Night and Seek” as the lovers speed from east to west (as told by the scenes) in a never-ending pursuit. Around the Day also describes the plight of night, revolving around her lover.

Hope that makes sense. I did it again, Grace, like that Thunder piece, or Moon to Her Lover. Thank you both, very much.

David :)

p.s. Grace, love Palin, such a hoot! You Brits put out some terrific documentaries. I love David Attenborough's (sp) nature series too.