Invented by Craig Tigerman, the editor for the online poetry journal SOL Magazine, the pleiades is a 7-line poem in which each line begins with same letter as the first letter in the one-word title. There are no rhyme or meter requirements for a pleiades, though some have suggested the lines be limited to six syllables.
You can read more about this form at Super Forty and The Poets Garret.
I hope you'll join me this week in writing a pleiades. Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.
Snow
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softly and then lies
still as wind comes,
sounding its hunting horns,
storming the skies and
scaring the trees. But
snow lies quiet.
—Kate Coombs, 2014
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Wow. I love Kate's poem. It's just beautiful. Thanks for sharing it, Kate.
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DeleteKate, love your poem, especially "hunting horns."
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STANLEY
Seeing Stanley, my Spanish water dog,
Suffer from the indignity of losing his
Sight has bruised my soul. He’s been
Stumbling for weeks, bumping into
Seemingly every bit of anything, I whisper,
“Stanley, don’t worry, I’m here, we
Stick together.
(c) Charles Waters 2014 all rights reserved.
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