Out Like a Lamb

To the Start

Directions?
You may as well ask
for a way
to the sun.
You cannot get there from here
nor can you return.


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April 29—Directions—Tell us how to get somewhere (a real “destination” that might or might not be a real place, or might be an emotional place, etc.)

The Shadorma is a six-line stanza form which seems to be a variation of the Japanese Haiku and Tanka tradition with its syllabic requirement of 3-5-3-3-7-5 and no rhyming requirement. As Viola Berg explains in her Pathways For the Poet, "Its beauty is enhanced when a strong word is used to end each line."