Singing Bowl

You hold the wholeness of a note
reverberating through the rooms

which emptiness once filled before
and silence shall congest again

unless one strikes at hollowness,
knows music flows through everything.




Singing Bowl © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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6 lines (prompt limit).  Image brevity challenge (bowl) prompt - link: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2783551-MAX-6-lines---PHOTO-is-prompt

Poem inspired by "standing bells" (some types sometimes being described as "Tibetan singing bowls"):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_bell

Submitted: July 15, 2021









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