THIS WEEK’S WORDS come from “The Blue-Green Stream” by Wang Wei: river, hills, advance, noise, darkness, broken, water, clean, silk, placid, curled, forever
Golden and glistening
Though he is broken
No one is listening
Raincoat is golden
Though he is broken
Yellow balloons in hand
Water drenched motion
Curled darkness in this land
No one is listening
Forever placid
Advance clean out warning
Noise in hills vapid
Raincoat is golden
Silky river running
Frozen and olden
And nothing forthcoming*
(c) ladyleemanila 2021
Created by C. G. V. Lewis, the Quadrilew is a form of quatrain poem with an abab rhyming scheme, repeating lines, and contains an alternating syllable structure.
In the first verse, the poet may either start with a five or six syllable line. If the choice is five then the ‘sounding’ syllable count is (and opposite if the count is six).
For: FLASH FICTION FOR THE PURPOSEFUL PRACTITIONER: 2021: WEEK #22 | A Writer’s Community (wordpress.com), June 2021 Writing Prompts – Putting My Feet in the Dirt, The Whirligig: Whirligig 320 (sundayswhirligig.blogspot.com)
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