Sevenling (clouds)
low gray clouds bellow,
weeping droplets that smell
of fish, dead leaves and clay
no sweet fragrance of spring
flowers, no sun kissed green,
only sticky, cold wetness
somewhere a lake grows shallow
~kat
(I took this photo from my desk at work…do you see that fishy cloud formation? It blew me away…so of course I had to get my phone out to snap a picture! I love clouds! 😊)
The elements of the Sevenling are:
1. a heptastich, a poem in 7 lines made up of 2 tercets followed by a single line.
2. metered at the discretion of the poet.
3. unrhymed.
4. composed with 3 complimentary images in the first tercet and 3 parallel images in the second tercet. The end line is a juxtaposed summary of the 2 parallels, a sort of “punchline”.
5. the poem should be titled “Sevenling: (first few words of poem).
like mercury colliding... 
June 18th, 2019 at 9:30 pm
ooooh, yeah, I see it – and my, it does look pretty cool … 🙂 how nifty, although it does look rather ominous a sky for threatening weather – but hey, (you need to name the fish) … so “X” seems to be swimmingly at home in this sea-sky 😀
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June 18th, 2019 at 10:24 pm
Hmmm, a name…Pisces ….the brooding water sign in the celestial realm. 😉
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June 19th, 2019 at 9:33 am
LOL – sounds like a baptism … in my head, I’m calling it/him – Pike. (not after the actual fish though – ) 😉
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June 18th, 2019 at 11:21 pm
Nice one!
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June 19th, 2019 at 8:49 am
Thanks Paula! 🙂
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June 19th, 2019 at 8:49 am
I actually spotted it before I read your comment. Isn’t it great. I think it may be an alien spaceship disguised as a puffer fish!
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June 19th, 2019 at 8:52 am
I love clouds. I had grabbed my phone when a coworker came into my cubicle. She said, “what are you doing?” And I said, “I have to get a picture of that cloud…can you see it?” It’s not often the clouds present themselves so succinctly. It was quite a “catch”. 😉
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