Poetic Form 32: Chanso

The Headline Read

I walk the streets filled with the debris

of last night’s summer storm when I see

a soaked newspaper’s headline decree

“3 Dead.” The rest is folded under,

lost in the puddle. I feel thunder

echo in the branches. I wonder

about the story untold of life’s

end for three people. Maybe a wife?

Friends? Or a fight that ended by knife?

As I step around the fallen leaves,

and tiptoe through puddles, the wind grieves

with me the cold truth no one believes.

The headline was one of too many

stories that fall like rain. There’s plenty

of moments ignored like lost pennies.

As I turn home,

I suddenly 

feel very alone.

Poetic Form #32: Chanso

The Chanso form consists of five or six stanzas with an envoy that 
is half the size of the stanzas in the poem. The stanza structure depends on the poet. The main rules are that each line of the poem should have the same number of syllables, and each stanza should be uniform in line length and rhyme scheme.