Monday, February 22, 2016

Monday Poetry Stretch - Shadorma

The shadorma is a Spanish poetic form consisting of six lines (a sestet) written in syllabic form. The syllable count is 3/5/3/3/7/5. A shadorma may consist of one stanza, or an unlimited number of stanzas.

That's it! Easy-peasy, right? I hope you'll join me this week in writing a shadorma. Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.

4 comments:

  1. WAVES
    Racing to
    rippling waves that look
    like rumpled
    clothes in need
    of ironing, each billow
    smooths my troubled soul.

    (c) Charles Waters 2016 all rights reserved.

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    1. Nice metaphor about the laundry, Charles!

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  2. Midnight, I’m
    looking for chocolate—
    the perfect
    poem is made
    of chocolate in a silver
    wrapper of starlight.

    —Kate Coombs, 2016
    all rights reserved

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  3. He's open
    to suggestions that
    suggest he
    doesn't need
    approval
    or suggestions that appear
    he doesn't care.

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