1- the day and gloam meet subtle wafts of musky air, leaves, weary of summer heat crisp, clinging tight where parched sap chokes mid-limb, no life to spare
2- pencils freshly sharp notes of soft wood, shaved lead, tools of learning the three R’s, art, notebooks, college-ruled students, masked, head anxiously to school
3- pumpkin that and this, ad nauseam, morning brew concoctions promising bliss at a price, it’s new again, some wait all year, sad but true
4- blink and time is gone soft body, aching, graying, dreams unrealized, nights long and dark, days fading winter coming soon, too soon, just saying
5- another harvest wisdom gleaned from books and tears choose your poison, leave the rest the death we most fear… not living life full while we are here
~kat
A new form, to me at least, lured me from hiding…actually, forced me from what has become the chaos of surviving. I paired it with my own creation, the horatiodet. Ode to my favorite season.
The cadralor is a poem of 5, unrelated, numbered stanzaic images, each of which can stand alone as a poem, is fewer than 10 lines, and ideally constrains all stanzas to the same number of lines. Imagery is crucial to cadralore: each stanza should be a whole, imagist poem, almost like a scene from a film, or a photograph. The fifth stanza acts as the crucible, alchemically pulling the unrelated stanzas together into a love poem. By “love poem,” we mean that your fifth stanza illuminates a gleaming thread that runs obliquely through the unrelated stanzas and answers the compelling question: “For what do you yearn?” gogyoka
Horatiodet is a total of 5 lines, syllable count: 5-7-7-5-9 / rhyme scheme: ababb. In other words, it is a short Horatian Ode (only one stanza), a form based on the style of Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), the leading Roman lyric poet.
Hello Peter! I have missed you. I hope you are doing well. We are staying well, but working far too many hours. And tending to several elderly pets. I hope to drop in a bit more. A wonderful form, the Cadralor.
So it is easier for you to find all the parts/chapters of my ongoing fiction series, I created a new page that lists all the links. You can check it out HERE!
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September 6th, 2021 at 12:28 pm
Good to see a post from you Kat. Hope all is well with you both.
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September 6th, 2021 at 12:30 pm
Thank you Di. Been a little rocky of late but coming out from under slowly.
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September 6th, 2021 at 12:36 pm
Good to know. Take care Kat.
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September 6th, 2021 at 1:06 pm
I enjoyed your new poetic form Kat. Great to see you back.
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September 7th, 2021 at 7:45 pm
Hi Sadje. Thank you. It’s good to be back. 😊
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September 7th, 2021 at 9:07 pm
You’re welcome!
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September 6th, 2021 at 5:02 pm
So very good to see you Kat, and what a great form to come back with. Love it. Keep smiling and keep well, both of you. x
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September 6th, 2021 at 5:12 pm
Hello Peter! I have missed you. I hope you are doing well. We are staying well, but working far too many hours. And tending to several elderly pets. I hope to drop in a bit more. A wonderful form, the Cadralor.
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