Shaping Words: Dawnscape

Friday, December 9, 2011

Dawnscape

Cool
Thin clouds
5 A.M.
A bright full moon
Slowly descending --
The first hint of sunlight
Pales the few remaining stars
In an hour the moon will be gone
Like the moments of this silent dawn
Like the last notes of a solo flute's song

2 comments:

Chi said...: This is the shortest cinema I've ever seen. A breathlessly beautiful image.; December 10, 2011 at 12:53 AM
Jim714 said...: Thanks, Chico, for your kind comments. I'm glad that the poem worked.

Jim; December 10, 2011 at 8:06 AM

Welcome to Shaping Words

My name is Jim Wilson and I am your host. Shaping Words is dedicated to the exploration of formal syllabic verse in English. Formal syllabic verse is poetry that has a set form which is determined by counting the syllables of the lines of the specific form. In formal syllabic verse words are shaped to the specific form of the type of verse being written. Hence the title of this blog: Shaping Words.

Formal syllabic verse has a wide variety of forms including Cinquain, Tetractys, Lanterne, as well as imported forms such as Haiku, Renga, and Tanka when the poet follows their traditional syllabic structure. This blog will offer poems from these many forms as well as occasional posts on the place of syllabic verse in English.

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