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Now to rain showers the heat wanes asunder
Poet shape my words to outspread umbrellas
© gillena cox 2018


Blog hopping today with

Couplets for the Solstice
Prompted by Frank Hubeny.

Revisit
21 June 2017
21 June 2016
21 June 2015

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UMBRELLAS BLOOM
clouds
they sit
this morning
on mountain tops
so elegantly
silvered with the light of
angelic halos spun by
invisible spider friends who
know the destiny of raindrops made
the sure reason why umbrellas ever bloom
© gillena cox 2015

written for Play it Again, Toads!


i chose The etheree named after an Arkansas poet. Etheree Taylor Armstrong (1918-1994.) It is an unrhymed syllable counting form, relentlessly rational, and seemingly childishly simple. You begin with a first line of one syllable, and continue for ten lines increasing the syllable count by one each line. Diagramming in syllables, this is what you get, line by line: 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10.