Shadorma

Shadorma is a Spanish 6-line syllabic poem of 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllable lines respectively.

               Blessings

 

So much need
in this broken world,
so much pain
and sorrow
and hunger and tears and fears.
I feel so useless.

 

So I cry
at all the faces
on TV
moms, kids, men,
swollen bellies, flies on cheeks
and switch the channel.

 

Then at night
their faces haunt me.
Why not me?
Why bless me?
Blessed to bless others, I hear
You say. Show me how.        
                                       ds 1/13

List Poem

All Things Grey

Pencil lead
Hoary head

Rain-filled clouds

Winter boughs

Shady deal

Cold oatmeal

Year old hay

Eeyore’s bray

Furry cats

Sewer rats

Ashes drab

Fiddler crab

Concrete blocks

Shipyard docks

Business suits

Laundry chutes

Shades of grey

Back away

You’re passé

Hold no sway

On this day

I’ll be gay!

     ds/12/12