Fugue (pantoum +)

Posted on by LuAnne Holder

Life is clay on a potter’s wheel
Each spin a unique tweak
Hands are used to shape the clay
When the soul is molded anew

Each spin a unique tweak
On relationships, roles, personas
When the soul is molded anew
Does the core identity remain?

On relationships, roles, personas
That are likewise molded anew
Does the core identity remain
Throughout this ethereal change?

The wheel of the soul spins while
Life is clay on a potter’s wheel
But it’s not the wheel that molds the soul
Hands are used to shape the clay

Hands touched by past events
Shape the soul’s emerging future

Photo by JamesDeMers courtesy of Pixabay

9 thoughts on “Fugue (pantoum +)”

    1. Thank you, Selma. I was thinking that a fugue was a musical variation of a theme and life is sort of a variation on an identity and a pantoum, well, it just has that lovely weaving kind of repetition. I actually started with the title and then wrote the poem. Funny sometimes how things work in the mind. Thanks for stopping by and asking the question. 🙂

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