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