NaPoWriMo
2022 was a fun month of writing, so for May I’m using the prompts from April
2021’s NaPoWriMo to write poems.
Day 7
And
now, for our prompt! There are many different poetic forms. Today, I’d like to
challenge you to pick from two of them – the shadorma, and the Fib. The shadorma is
a six-line, 26-syllable poem (or a stanza – you can write a poem that is made
of multiple shadorma stanzas). The syllable count by line is 3/5/3/3/7/5. Rather
poetically, the origin of the shadorma is mysterious. I’ve seen multiple online
sources call it Spanish – but “shadorma” isn’t a Spanish word (Spanish doesn’t
have “sh” as a letter pairing), and neither is “xadorma,” or “jadorma,” which
would approximate “shadorma” in sound. But even if this form is simply the
brainchild of an internet trickster who gave it an imaginary backstory, that’s
no reason why you shouldn’t try your hand at it. Every form was made up by
someone, sometime.
White on blue
Blue sea blows.
A white gull dips, sifts
ice water,
tripping surf,
lifts high on warm breeze to soar,
glides on the updraft.
Snake
Gilded snake
curls, smooths its slow way,
gold echo,
bends in bold,
glides its glittering hide out
through long olive grass.
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, May 14, 2022
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