no cool breezes today to temper the heat
waves rising from pavement, hot, smelling of oil
with hints of green, wilting, birds fluttering, tweet
~kat
This month we’re doing a Terza Rima stanza a day for our poem a day challenge. A Terza Rima is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern a-b-a, b-c-b, c-d-c, d-e-d. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in terza rima end with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet. The two possible endings for the example above are d-e-d, e or d-e-d, e-e. Some descriptions suggest a syllable count of 11 per line in an iambic meter. I’m going to try that. Thanks to Jane Dougherty for her encouragement to write a short poem a day!
like mercury colliding... 
July 1st, 2018 at 9:56 pm
So, basically, it’s stopped raining downward & is raining upward now?
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July 1st, 2018 at 10:28 pm
It’s hot and dry. Amazing how quickly mud turns to dust.
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July 1st, 2018 at 11:23 pm
Ahhh… NOW you’ve got the perfect recipe for Valley Fever. Welcome to a reinactment of the Great American Dustbowl 😋
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July 2nd, 2018 at 4:40 am
Great start Kat I can feel the heat.💜💜
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July 2nd, 2018 at 9:50 am
and with no end in sight over the next several days…
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July 2nd, 2018 at 10:02 am
Nor here either💜
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July 2nd, 2018 at 7:50 am
You do work hard for our pleasure Kat! Thank you.
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July 2nd, 2018 at 9:50 am
My pleasure. Writing is my sanity. 🙂 I’m just thrilled others want to read what I scribble.
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July 2nd, 2018 at 10:37 am
Great (dusty) start, Kat! I used 10 syllables. Not sure why they say 11.
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July 2nd, 2018 at 10:44 am
I was wondering…may adjust on the next series.
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July 2nd, 2018 at 10:48 am
Five feet usually makes ten syllables when I use it. Best not to count though. If it sounds right, it’s right 🙂
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