posting poetic prose
27 Jan 2022 20 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: beach, crab, minute, seashell
do you see that little seashell?
left from wave swell
so delicate—
i would like it.
it’s that freckled one over there
exposed to air
lying on sand
reach out your hand.
now, did you see that seashell move?
get it, my love
make a quick grab
—a hermit crab!
Grace invites us to write “minute poems” at dVerse Poets pub. A Minute Poem has 60 syllables, 3 quatrains of 8-4-4-4 syllable lines, and aabb-ccdd-eeff rhyme scheme.
19 Sep 2018 6 Comments
in decastitch Tags: egg, minute, parents, phone, timer
long distance phone calls
when parents set
three minute
timer
talk
talk
timer
three minute
when parents set
long distance phone calls
Ramblings of a Writer with “egg timer” poetry form: unrhymed decastitch with syllabic pattern 5-4-3-2-1-1-2-3-4-5, last 5 lines mirror first 5 lines.
a poem in my pocket 