PROMPTED PLAY | A TRIO OF SENRYU

Symbols

# Day 36 — Elizabeth Gilmore’s Things I Like to Draw

Procreate play by me

Celtic Triskelion
Interconnections spiral
Over lands and seas

Clockwise or countered
Meaning morphs from expansion
to inner descent

Past present future
Earth water sky trio of realms
Meld in middle fire

My sister gifted me a necklace bearing the Triskelion symbol as a parting gift before I went travelling around Australia many many years ago.

A gift from my sister around my neck as I travelled around oz with Boj

Matilda recently dug it out from an old box I was sorting out.

I haven’t worn jewellery for a long time, but this symbol called to be worn once more.

Like all symbols, they are open to multiple interpretations.

The bits I read and gathered allowed me to “create” a mixed-up meaning for myself —

— 3 legs of the Sicilian flag — the origin of the maternal side of the family
— the 3’s I keep seeing in my life; like 3rd of 4…