The Creative Moment Challenge 1

 

The first The Creative Moment Challenge was to create a piece of art centered on the emotion sorrow. Here is my first draft of a poem and then using my original idea I crafted a shadorma poem. I talk about the process in our latest episode: The Creative Moment

Like a solitary tree

on the horizon of the mixed grass prairie

Sage and cactus speckle green

in sea of sun drenched buttes

You wonder what storm could bring

A single seed

to such a dry land 

break the ground apart 

drop it deep enough

to give this tree a chance

A chance to grow

All alone in this world

Shadorma: Spanish 6-line syllabic poem of 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllable lines for poem / stanza.

Like a tree

solitary on 

horizon 

of the mixed 

grass prairie. Sage and cactus 

speckle green in sea

of sun drenched

buttes. You wonder what 

storm could bring

a single seed

to such a dry land, break the 

ground apart, drop it 

deep enough

to give the tree a 

chance to grow

all alone

in this bare world. You sigh as

you feel your heart beat.