Sunday, April 27, 2025

NPM 2025 - Poem 27

For National Poetry Month this year, I am writing poems in uncommon, unusual, or inventive poetic forms. The only rule I have set for myself is that I choose forms I am unfamiliar with. Here are some of the resources I am referencing. 

Today, I'm sharing a raccontino.
Helen Frost used this form in her book Spinning Through the Universe: A Novel in Poems from Room 214. A raccontino is a form that follows these rules:

  • composed of couplets (any number)
  • even number lines share the same end rhyme
  • the title and last words of the odd numbered lines tell a story

Since the title and end words need to form a story, I chose a proverb to be my story. That means this form wrote like a golden shovel with a few extra rules. I have highlighted the title and end words so that you can more easily read the story.

Absence

the quiet months of winter makes
the world seem still, wrapped in frosted hue

but as the Earth awakens, the
sky welcomes wings that once withdrew

the swallows return and my heart
finds joy in pairings where two

in graceful arcs their swift flights grow
into a vibrant pulse of life anew

despite deep love for snow, I am now fonder
of the sights and sounds that spring imbues

Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2025. All rights reserved.

I hope you come back tomorrow to see what new poetic form I've chosen. You can also read the other poems I've written this month.

To see what others are writing this month, check out  Jama Rattigan's 2025 National Poetry Month Kidlitosphere Events Roundup.           

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