Poems that pursue the horizon from past to present and poems created for NaPoWriMo 2017 |
Falling heavy wet flakes of snow Pelting faster, then drifting slow; Branches laden with globs of white, Struggling, remain strongly upright Bright transitioning snowy rain. Lighter feathers dropping in sheets, Touching down, snowing hard not weak; Wet flakes weigh on bended branches Bowing white tipped green fir flanches; Bright transitioning snowy rain. Wind blasts speedily whip and blow Swirling snowflakes once softly slow; Gathering speed, twirling faster, Forming visual alabaster; Bright transitioning snowy rain. White inches heap and plunge from trees; Snow mist idly floats in the breeze. Watching safe are we from within, Happily knitting, staying warm; Bright transitioning snowy rain. Clear opaque translucent droplets, Mixing with flakes, pearly white bits Of achromatic rain’s rumbling; Steady downward icy tumbling, Bright transitioning snowy rain. Light cold sleeting wintry rain falls, Until white ice frost covers all. ____________________________________________ Entry: April 10, 2017 Prompt: Extreme weather For: Dew Drop Inn Poetry Workshop Form: Quintilla is a 16th century Spanish Quintain form of eight syllable lines. The rhyming scheme can vary in presentation, but only two consecutive lines may have the same rhyme pattern. Modifications: A couplet ending; modified rhyme pattern. Rhythm: Iambic Tetrameter Rhyme Pattern: aabbR, ccddR, etc. with end rhyming couplet Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.~~Robert Frost |