Tag: Scavenger Hunt

• Watching the child wake

  An interlocking rubaiyat version of an earlier poem, for the Scavenger Hunt. Watching the child wake She bends her head beneath the moon’s pale glow,And listens to the gentle breathing,…

• Waking in spring

  A kimo couple (my very first) for the Scavenger Hunt. They can be read separately if each kimo is expected to stand alone. Waking in spring this day will rise…

• These spring days

  Another attempt at a rhopalic verse for the Scavenger Hunt. I think this fits the remit. I prefer the version with one-word lines to give it a better flow, but…

• Waking

  A rhopalic verse, for the Scavenger Hunt. It grows! Waking From pearl,a pale mist,the half-seen faceof a mother, bentover her sleeping child,dawn’s light touch ignites the glow.Indistinct earth swells, ocean…

• Sedoka

  For the Scavenger Hunt. I’m not up to a prolonged rhyming contest today. My neck hurts and it’s far too hot. So here are two katauta to make a sedoka.…

• River stones

  For day 12 of the Scavenger Hunt challenge, I’m skipping the German entry and going back to try the cameo form instead. Unless I’ve completely misunderstood the rules for the…

• Soft morning

  A dizain for the Scavenger Hunt prompt. Soft morning The sound of birds fills golden air,the piping of the world awake,a dawn I thought could never break,so rich and deep…

• Night trees

  For the Scavenger Hunt series of prompts, an Ottava Rima. I’m not sure now that ‘allumes’ is an English word. There’s a certain seepage from one vocabulary set to another…

• The wind in the night

  A decima espinela for the Scavenger Hunt prompt. The wind in the night Wind in the night blew you away,Torn like a leaf from an autumn tree,Tossed black billows, a…

• Gardening

  Another memory for the Scavenger Hunt prompt. This time, a biolet. There’s probably a way, as in the triolet, of changing the punctuation of the repeated lines to change the…