Friday, January 30, 2015

Stanza

"Dancing with the Moon"
sculpture by Donna McCullough

Poet David Lehman started an online challenge to create a stanza for a sestina. Sestina? Specific form with a stanza structure of six lines ending in certain words which change order in subsequent stanzas. A puzzle to complete -- the six words being: book, port, dress, sing, fear, spirit.


The title of her next book
will be: How to leave port
in a tethered dress.
Startled bystanders will sing
as she takes the plunge without fear,
royalties paid in currency of spirit.  

~ LCMH



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