Poetry and Short Stories

Diminuendo poetry form

Here are the rules:
1. The poem MUST be about nature in some way.
3. The poem must be only one stanza.
2. The stanza must have 5 lines. Each line has a specific number of syllables:

line 1: 5 syllables
line 2: 4 syllables
line 3: 3 syllables
line 4: 2 syllables
line 5: 1 syllable

Note that the lines do not have to be seperate sentences. The entire poem may be one sentence or it may contain several.

Here are some examples:

Rain like cold bullets
guns down the heat;
sweltering
day is
done
(Steve Goble)


Missing Her
Maple leaf dies slow,
bounces windblown.
Orange clown
like me---
lone.

Pebble
Pebble grips my palm,
pleads for escape.
Its splash laughs
on the
lake.

Night Love
Snow crowds our windows
while we make love.
Stars applaud
shadows
twined.

Birdsong
Crow tells a story
at each new dawn:
learned by night,
moonly
songs.

(Daniel Blackston)