This poem is presented in its rough draft form for the PAD 2023 challenge and will be revised.
Alone, I read the
stars. I feel your heart with me
between moon and Orion.
Sorry, you read those
constellations wrong. I am
lost in someone else’s arms.
Poetic Form: sedoka
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.
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.
Another storm, my hands become
numb. The wind cuts like a bass drum
along the street, angry with us.
Eyes closing I shy away from
Mother Nature’s judgment. Night plus
time reveals a clearing sky, thus
I can see Orion standing,
shield ready as if he mistrusts
the oncoming day. Commanding
the horizon from expanding.
I wonder if he can save me,
from the storm I am withstanding.
My breath, white and dense, show the degree
the night has fallen. The grey trees
whisper over my head, “No, he
will not step from the stars for thee.”
Poetic Form #79: Interlocking Rubaiyat
The Interlocking Rubaiyat is composed of quatrains following
an aaba rhyme pattern. The successive quatrain uses the
unrhymed line as the rhyme for that stanza. A three-stanza
rubaiyat rhyme scheme would be: aaba/bbcb/ccdc. Sometimes
the final stanza rhymes all four lines. The lines are usually tetrameter
and pentameter. Robert Frost’s "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
is a classic example.
