WHEN THE STORM PASSES

         WHEN THE STORM PASSES

Should we speak when silence is best,
perpetrate words while mind’s at rest?
Solemn, quiet --- no laughing jest!
Merely attest:  merely a test.

The words will come, we’ll have our say.
As pen flows free, work becomes play
when the storm passes, floats away…
Oh, happy day!  Oh, happy day!

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Written in the Monotetra style, developed by Michael Walker.  Each stanza contains four lines in monorhyme, every line in tetrameter (four metrical feet) for a total of eight syllables per line.  The last line of each stanza contains two metrical feet, repeated.