Day 24:

July 24, 2012-CHI-YEN-SHIH-from China, abcb;defe;ghih, 7 syllables, break after each  4^th syllable. Some poems use only abcb, but can extend to 2 or 3 phrases,

Chi Yen Shih

A Chi Yen Shih

                Count seven

Four syllables

Then three

A b c b

                Form follows

Broken apart,

Can you see?

Can you follow

This pattern?

A Chinese form,

Asian rhyme

One, two, or three

Phrases work

Follow along

In your time.

Closing this rhyme

We finish

The Chi Yen Shih

                You can tend

D e f e

                Was before

G h I h

At the end.