Tumbling springs fall
carving walls grooved
as scrawling notes
flashly floating
while coating all it touches with misty motes.
For Voices of Poetry and Prose magazine entry submission: Ya-Du Poetry Form
The rules for this poetry form are as follows. These rules are pretty rigid, and I actually do not follow one of the rules as stated below. Can you find it?
•1, 2, or 3 stanzas, each with 5 lines;
•Lines 1, 2, 3, and 4 have four syllables;
•Line 5 has 5, 7, 9, or 11 syllables;
•Lines 4 and 5 have end rhyme;
•Lines 1, 2, and 3 have climbing rhyme in syllables 4, 3, and 2;
•Lines 3, 4, and 5 have climbing rhyme in syllables 4, 3, and 2;
•There should be a reference to the seasons.
