Snow's Writing for 2019, 2020, & Beyond

The Yama - Mother

Mother

Her voice is silent now,
No longer speaks her truth,
No longer chants or prays,
Or tells us of her youth.

No longer does she speak
Words of encouragement,
No longer sings or laughs,
Or gives us nourishment.

We pray now for her soul,
Because she asked us to,
We listen for her voice,
Her whispered I love you.

Poet's Note: ▶︎

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Form: The Yama   is named for the Hindi god of death and is a stanzaic form found in Viola Berg's Pathways for a Poet.

The elements of the Yama are:
         1. stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
         2. syllabic, written in 6 syllable lines.
         3. rhymed, rhyme scheme x a x a, x being unrhymed.
         4. a poem of death, grief or sorrow. It can be expanded to include simply a poem of loss. (even of a season)
         5. titled.

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