floating and leaving no trace
that spark in your eye
how you set my heart a-quake
if only you knew its worth
like some cliche plot
i want to spy on your sleep
and hear you whisper my name
——
the secret keeper
Weekly Writing Prompt #27
(5) Words: | WORTH | SPARK | PLOT | QUAKE | SPY |
the path, old unused
overrun with brush–still i
choose this unfulfilled promise
my steps a rhythm
a beat like the human heart
a new view of old vistas
—-
The Secret Keeper
Weekly Writing Prompt #24
(5) Words: | WALK | OLD | PROMISE | VIEW | BEAT |
we have some moonlight–
the only clothes we can bear
when we tremble side to side
your heart is a bird
shuddering and flying free
you draw me soaring after
—–
Hat tip to Elusive Trope for writing in this form, a sedoka, and to Shadow Poetry for a fine definition of sedoka and katauta.
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