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.

PAD 2022 Day 7: Abundance

 

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

PAD Prompt: Abundance 

Poetic Form: Shadorma

“There’s too much Light”

Orion’s 

belt doesn’t look good

in neon.

Cities are

now constellations formed by

sleepless wandering.

Our stars are

red, green, and yellow.

The moon is 

a night light

that we have outgrown because

we forgot the night

was meant to

be dark so we may

discover

the beauty

of our wondering found in

what the stars revealed.

April Poetry Challenge 2021: Day Thirteen

 

Day 12 Prompt: Lucky

Form: Shadorma

“Stargazer”

I’ve never

felt like the stars

aligned for

me. Every

night some star or planet was

sitting off center.

Even so,

I am still a star

gazer. You

can find me

staring up at Orion

lost in the past light.

Poetic Form 38: Shadorma

William

Lost uncle

found through internet

connections.

Living, with

his wife, across the ocean. 

Family redefined.

Both of us

teachers of stories.

Ideas shared

through written

words. Passion passed to students,

educate the soul.

Time gone is

history now shared 

through a screen.

His brother’s

son learning a family’s

tradition, now his.

Poetic Form #38: Shadorma 

Shadorma is a Spanish form that has 6 lines that follow a 3/5/3/3/7/5 
syllable pattern. That’s it.