rock
rose
rain
all the place I am
belonging for
Wind Rose, 2021
Michele Root-Bernstein
Commentary: Visually concrete and symbolically rich Ls 1-3, "rock" (solid steadiness), "rose" (love/passion), and "rain" (source of life/renewal) are all the place where the speaker belongs as indicated in Ls 4&5, showing the speaker's personality traits.
This five-line poem works well as a character/persona haiku or tanka whose first three lines can work on their own because of their significance, visual and symbolic. For more examples, see "To the Lighthouse: Character/Persona Tanka"
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