Day 7 PAD 2023

 

This poem is presented in its rough draft form for the PAD 2023 challenge and will be revised.

“How to Fall in Love”

Interlock the fingers, touch palms.
Keep your heart calm.
Stay with her pace,
go anyplace.

Talk about the clouds, or just smile
and walk awhile.
Feel her presence,
this will be tense.

Find a moment to stop and gaze,
at her crossways,
then turn to see
what this can be.

Poetic Form: Minute Poem

PAD 2022 Day 6: Blank in the Blank

 This poem is presented in its rough draft form for the PAD 2022 challenge and will be revised. 

PAD Prompt: Blank in the Blank

Poetic Form: Minute Poem

Lost in the Moment

Like a Saturday afternoon,

during late June.

Bubbles floating.

Ice cream coating

smiles of my children. Hours measured

by swings weathered

from storms and years

of children’s cheers

as they learned to let their hearts fly,

feet to the sky.

Today my heart,

takes time apart.

Poetic Form 78: Minute Poem

 Look

The eyes fall to another time,

and place. I climb

to see the path,

she walks with wrath.

The gate is locked with old beliefs.

Lover’s motifs

of broken rings,

the arrows sting.

I scream, frustration hits my chest.

A question pressed 

my words, disguised

past her sad eyes.

Poetic Form #78: Minute Poem

The minute poem is a recent poetic form.
The form is devised of 3 quatrains with 8 syllables in the first line of
each stanza. There are 4 syllables in the remaining lines of each stanza.
The rhyme scheme is aabb/ccdd/eeff and written in strict iambic meter.
Each stanza contains 20 syllables. With 3 stanzas that equals equals
60 syllables total. 60 seconds, or a minute.