Today's prompt: The 16 Word Stanza Exercise
Three five-line stanzas—each stanza only sixteen words. What can you stuff
into this simple form?
Sunrise brings the
wind that slept
in the night,
blanketed in moonlight,
pillowed on bright stars.
Wind wakes fully.
no shilly-shallying.
It bends the tall grasses
and waltzes with the
forsythia.
Left on the clothesline
overnight, a lone shirt
hugs itself, its
sleeves wrapped
against the chill.
love the visual in that middle stanza...and shilly shallying...ha never heard that...
ReplyDeletepauline . . . .the first stanza . . . so singable, so danceable, so lovely . . . . steven
ReplyDeleteBrian - my mother was forever telling me not to shilly-shally!
ReplyDeleteSteven - from a singable danceable poet, that's a lovely compliment. Thanks!