First Snow of Korean Winter

First Snow of Winter

In Korea at the first snow.
Lovers like to walk, you may know
Walking in white snow, their love show.
At the first snow, at the first snow.

Walking in the snowy sunset
. Stopping to eat a hot baguette.
Drinking cocktail, a gimlet
. Stopping to eat, stopping to eat.

Walking along a fake canal
Hot coffee artisanal.
The Gimpo Café Royal
Café Royal, Café Royal.

Until recently I never heard of this form. I found it in the book of Cookie ~ contemplatingareturn It intrigued me and a search learned me that the developer is Michael Walker.

-The Monotetra's stanza has a mono rhyme scheme in each stanza.
-It has four lines per stanza, eight syllables per line.
-In the last line, four syllables are repeated, as if in an echo, to make it look like a little refrain.
-The monotetra can be as long as you like, but has to have at least two stanzas.


-The name of this form is coming from the fact that the stanzas are mono-rhymed and written in tetrameter. Notice that each stanza can have a different rhyme, but all four lines within each stanza must rhyme.

My try:

Lonely bird in a solo flight
Lands on a branch, as morning light
Chases away darkness of night
Beautiful sight, beautiful sight!

Bird, take along my thoughts with thee
Bring them to my lover, for me
My heart belongs to him, and he
Just lets me be...just lets me be

You touched my heart, and I will go
I'll fly through rain, I'll fly through snow
Give me a sign that I can show
Your words must glow, your words must glow

I'll give this ring for him to see
Then hope he brings it home to me
I love him, mine he has to be
Eternally, eternally......

Poem © Bianca 2006