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Poem a Day contest entry
Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011
prompt 3: a la 'tuin poem |
Established wetland restoration where migratory birds may land, eat and rest their weary wings awhile; humans, too, in celebration, Witness the annual migration assisted by binoculars, and telephoto cameras, radical size for peak magnification. Arriving with anticipation, white snow geese with black wingtips, sand hill cranes, Canada geese, and Pin-tail Ducks arrive in V formation, Form throngs in full participation. Black crows and ravens flock and land in golden hedgerow trees, bevel a murder conflagration. Fledgling red-winged blackbirds move as one with iridescent starling cousins, fan and turn with startling ease, surge so tall, re-shape, then reverse direction. Established wetland restoration invites migratory birds to land, eat, and rest their weary wings awhile. humans, too, in celebration. A la 'tuin poem: the poem consists of 4 lined stanzas. There is a minimum of four stanzas. The syllable count is 9/8/9/8 The rhyme scheme is abca, abca, abca, abca Stanzas 2,3, etc must follow the same rhyme as in the 1st stanza. The 1st stanza is repeated in its entirety as the last stanza. |