The Prisms of Life

About this poem

This Japanese-style Tanka poem, amplified into a seven-stanza reflective metacognitive poem, invites each of us to take an introspective examination of ourselves, if even for a moment, and to observe how all of us, during the span of our lives, from the womb to the tomb, consciously or unconsciously, through laughter and through tears, through “good” times and “bad” times, through successes and failures, through comedy and tragedies; all of us, young and old, rich and poor, meek and mighty , all of us employ and deploy as resources during the course of our lifetime, multiple prisms of our own construction and design during our earthly pilgrimage from birth until death, glorifying or even at times belittling ourselves while being in the spotlight on that stage that we call “Life. ” more »