Patchwork Quilt

Patchwork Quilt


Northern winds
unmask branches bare;
leaves dance and
fill the air.
A whispered colored farewell
is their final prayer.

They lay, a
patchwork quilt upon
the cooling
earth, now drawn
protectively as rebirth
dreams await spring’s dawn.


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Prompt(s): Form - The Shadorma is a Spanish poetic form made up of a stanza of six lines (sestet) with no set rhyme scheme. It is a syllabic poem with a meter of 3/5/3/3/7/5. Multiple verses are allowed but must follow the stanza requirements.

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