UNCOMMON POETIC FORMS
Flittering Fluttering Through the Flowers
Three shadormas
Warm sunshine
on this summer day
butterfly
flittering
fluttering through the flowers
stopping for nectar
Landing on
Buddleia flower
they only
live for weeks
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
extends proboscis
This adult
born of chrysalis
beauty flies
bird torn tail
flitters flutters to flower
nothing is perfect
A Shadorma is a six-line poem or stanza of 3–5–3–3–7–5 syllable lines respectively. Unknown origin, meter and rhyme optional.
This shadorma was written in response to Literary Impulse’s prompt, ‘uncommon poetic forms’. If any of my fellow writers would like to try their hand at writing one or more of these fifteen forms, instructions and descriptions can be found in the link to Somsubhra’s informative piece below.
Thank you, Somsubhra Banerjee, Priyanka Srivastava, Elisabeth Khan, and, Nachi Keta, of Literary Impulse for this opportunity. Thank you readers for spending your time here.
