Night Has Fallen
A Domino Rhyme
I watched, as the evening sun,
with all it's beautiful colors
reflected through the clouds
slowly set in the western sky.
I watched, as my neighbors shut their doors.
The lights cause shadows that danced on the street,
visible through the misty fog,
that created a vision of cold dark shrouds.
The frogs sang, the crickets kept the beat,
I sat there listening to the music of the night.
The wind made a moaning sound,
in the distance the bark of a dog.
If I didn't know it could be a fright,
the sounds and sights after dark.
I sat there gazing at the sky, as the
moon appeared over the hills in a bound.
By MississippiMan
© 2006 MississippiMan
(All rights reserved)
This poem written for The FOS Best of/Worst of Year 3 Top Ten
challenge. This week is number 10, with a choice of the worst –
domino rhyme, or the best – lune.
Domino Rhyme
A domino rhyme is written in four-line stanzas, within which
there are no rhymes at all. However, every line rhymes with a
line in another stanza. Specifically, lines 2 and 3 of each
stanza rhyme with lines 1 and 4 respectively of the next stanza.
The final stanza completes the loop, its lines 2 and 3 rhyming
with lines 1 and 4 of the first stanza.
Lune
The lune is a 13-syllable poem written in 3 lines containing
5-3-5 syllables respectively, and not restricted by Japanese
traditions. Any subject, any thought, is fair game.
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