The Small Gift

Sedoka poem. Great things come in small packages... or do they?

Oh, what could it be?
It must be fine, must be rare;
the smaller, the more divine.

I hope she likes it.
I hope the gift is enough.
Candy stores are expensive.

2nd Place in the Pond Poetry Contest


The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.
(Katauta is an unrhymed three-line poem the following syllable counts: 5/7/7.)