Wind
Shadorma Poem
Published in
1 min readSep 20, 2021
Playing with
the colours she washed,
grey to blue,
gentle drops
drawing dreams upon the breeze,
pitter-patter wind
Poet Lubna Yusuf
You may like to read her book, A Picture of Time: India’s First Book of Tanka Poems and Illustrations, a bestseller in Asian Literature on Amazon.
A Shadorma is a poetic form consisting of a six-line stanza (or sestet). The form is alleged to have originated in Spain.
It has a syllable structure of 3-5-3-3-7-5 with a total of 26 syllables.
Special thanks to Somsubhra Banerjee for introducing this form to new readers here on Medium with @literary-impulse.
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