Keep Your Thoughts Alive

Keep Your Thoughts Alive

Dreamless sleep,
imagination's
well gone dry.
Vapid view
of a virtual venue;
minds abandoned die.

The shadorma, like haiku and tanka, falls under the category of short form poetry.  The shadorma is similar to both haiku and tanka, yet it is not of Japanese descent.  It is a 6 lined poem (sestet) of Spanish descent with no set rhyme scheme. The shadorma is a syllabic poem with the following structure: 3/5/3/3/7/5.