Shadorma

This week's Wednesday prompt was to write a Shadorma – a 6-line Spanish syllabic form with a pattern of 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllables per line. And they can be linked to form several verses of one poem.

Here are some:


Silk Painting

Nine candles,
a lifted chalice.
Dancing flames
make letters
that light a candelabra,
on a field of silk.


Harvest

Late summer,
festival of light …
Lughnasad,
love that word.
Love the idea of fires
leaping, hill to hill.


The Way

The lost key
out of the old door,
never found,
lately missed,
became a symbol to her
of all the locked ways.

So it was
she never explored
a new path,
never tried
a different opening,
not ever.

27/6/08

(Last Wednesday's prompt was to write an 'invasion' poem. I wrote mine as a tanka, which will be included in the June haiku on Haiku Page of the Passionate Crone.)