Saturday, August 30, 2014

Showered are the blessed!

                                                                                        Attribution: Daniel Schwen
Image: The Impending Cold (here)

A Minute Poem
With a rhyming verse of 12 lines with 60 syllables
It comprises 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4 syllables
each. The rhyme scheme is:  aabb, ccdd, eeff

a      Filling larders spruced for action
a      hibernation
b      activity
b      a reality

c      squirrels precede Man’s reaction
c      in conjunction
d     with facing cold
d     weather all told

e     prospects of White Christmas welcomed
e     it will be fun
f      brace oneself for
f      the end of year

Note: Hank finds Minute Poems more
restrictive as one needs to contend with
both rhyming and syllable count


                                                                                                 Attribution: Georgia
Image: The Little Ones (here)

A Shadorma
comprises six non-rhyming lines and
the syllable pattern is 3-5-3-3-7-5

Tiny chicks
Luscious surroundings
What else should
they ask for
Heaven’s wealth in abundance
Showered are the blessed

Note: For Hannah's Real Toads both poems are 
not directly according to her prompt but almost

For Georgia's at Mindlovemisery's Menagerie  -  Shadorma
and Hannah's Nature's Wonders at Real Toads 

14 comments:

  1. You did really well on these Hank! Fun reads, both.
    I liked your picture choices too. The top reminds me of coming into Iowa (U.S. Midwestern state) on a wintery morning after driving all night in better climates (Southern states).
    I won't, but should have tried this one.
    Been missing your poems lately. Thank you for your visit this morning also, glad to return here.
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    1. BTW, I have a 'Mountain Climbing Tale' on my other Photo and Poem blog (not the hot dogs blog) today.
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    2. Yes,certain scenes can be rekindling memories. Drop by anytime. Sometimes I too may miss a few of the regular buddies. Will look up your other blog. Thanks!

      Hank

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  2. I liked the constrictions.. But it painted a picture I don't want to face just yet.

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  3. almost is good enough when it comes to form...i think they stretch us, but we should not let a poem die to fit the form...i like the shadorma the best....even the chicks are blessed...what should we worry

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  4. Really like the first one. White Christmases are special.

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  5. Both are really good but I love the shadorma.

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  6. Nicely done, Hank

    Yes - Winter is coming.

    Cheers!
    JzB

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  7. Squirrels do know where to burrow away before the cold comes, nice rhyme too.

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  8. Such a tight form ~ I specially like the shardorma with the blessings of abundance ~

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  9. Nice form-writing, Hank...the animals that you brought into these make me smile. Thank you for sharing! :)

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  10. Hank might not like it -- but Hank did well! Though I'm not read for a White Christmas either! And the shadorma is lovely -- a wonderful atmosphere of gratitude.

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  11. Amen! How healing and reminding
    ALOHA from Honolulu
    ComfortSpiral
    =^..^= . <3 . >< } } (°>


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  12. Goodness, you did fantastic with the forms...

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