Day 62:

Aug 31-Abhanga, India, abbc, deef, etc. 6,6,6,4 syllables.Title: Music

Music is joy defined

Bring out the peaceful sound

Or for a beat just pound,

The rhythm reaches out.

Harmony, Melody

Reaching out to the ear

There’s nothing here to fear

Come join the festival.

Day 61:

Aug 30-Naga Uta/Choka, Asian haiku-like form, 5/7/5/7/5/7/5/7/7

Genesis

Peaceful beginnings

But wrongdoings enter life
Then murder begins
Evildoers are abound
Wash them all away
Now start all over again
The Patriarch walk
Traveling to a new land
Genesis for God’s people.

Day 60:

Aug 29-Pathya Vat, Cambodia, 4 lines, 4 syllables, abbc, dcce, etc
Here is my title, Peace is not here:

Peace is not here.

What can be done?
Can it be won?
And can we know?

 

It must be us

Inside we show
To others go
And share ourselves.

Day 59:

Aug 28- Utendi, a Swahli form of Tendi. Pattern: aaab, 8 syllables, title: Something New

The Music of the Spheres seems wrong

Something new comes, it won’t be long

I seem to hear a brand new song.

A new age is about to start!

Day 58:

Aug 27-Kyrielle, aabb abab aabb abab(8 syllables)French, originally religious rites, then troubadors

Title:What is to be found?

What is it to be found that’s true?

What can be found when life is through?

The search goes on life’s meaning

Look above for what’s revealing.

Universal Law is the glue

From nothing everything did spring

From the Word, everything was new

Newborn, the universe did sing.

Above it all, the angels flew

They sang praises, so should me and you

Of God’s goodness, all praises ring

With the Lord’s commands, we should cling.

Disciples, there seem to be few

True worshippers for souls fishing

Judgment comes for everyone too

True Christians should be inviting.

Day 57:

Aug 26-Trimeric, ABCD, Bef, Cgh, Dij, 1st line copied. not rhymed.Dr. Charles Stone. Title:Trimeric

How do you make a Trimeric?

Dr. Stone will show you the way.

Start with the phrase ABCD,

Tercets will follow each main line.

Dr. Stone will show you the way.

No rhyme, Bef, and the same,

And there is no formal meter

Start with the phrase ABCD,

Each cap will then start their own phrase

They copy what was shown at the first.

Tercets will follow each main line.

Each line explains the tercet’s path

And now a Trimeric  you’ve made!

Day 56:

Aug 25-Terza Rima, tercets(aba bcb cdc end in aa) Italian.,typically iambic pentameter.

Title: The Sand

The patterns in the sand ripple and glow

The waves then wash the flow of time away

My footprints disappear, so where’d they go?

The sands of life, truly not long they stay

Before the ocean covers it like paint

It swallows up the brightness of the day.

No matter, if as sinner or as saint

The tides roll on, the sand has turned to naught

And if one’s life was built on sand, they’d faint,

Because the loss has shown what they now know

Without the rock, like sand, they must now go.