Kintsukuroi

Fill my cracks with gold,
so that I may shine
in all the broken places

Author's Note

Kintsugi, also known as Kintsukuroi, is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.
As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. -Wikipedia

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I liked the hope and the wish of the poem. Gold would make the cracks shine bright. Thank you Gaia for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote

[Gaia Octavia]

Thank you for your kind review

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome.

[seth bauman]

i love this so much. i want it framed on my wall, and engraved on my tombstone.

[Gaia Octavia]

Thank you very much 😊 The pic isn't mine but feel free to print and slap it on ur wall 😉

[HeyJadeXO]

This is very innovative writing.Great piece

[Gaia Octavia]

Thank you ☺

[Asante]

To take the art of restoring broken china and apply that metaphor to making better of a broken person, that just reads as stellar to me. Kintsugi. :)

You wrote this as well as it could've been written, in so few lines, but simultaneously just enough lines to pack a very strong punch.

Excellent, my friend, excellent!

[Gaia Octavia]

Thank you very much, it means a lot to me that you understood and enjoyed this. :-)

[Asante]

My pleasure; I definitely understood it. :)
The title even reminded me of a Death Cab for Cutie album title as a funny aside, aha.
Keep up the stellar writing!

[Gaia Octavia]

Haha nice :-) Will do. You as well!