A Shadorma

This is a Shadorma poem I wrote last year. This poetic form is said to have originated from Spain, and consists of six-line stanzas, each with a fixed syllable count for every line (similar to a haiku). There are three syllables in the first line, five in the second, three in the third and fourth lines, seven syllables in the fifth line, and five syllables in the sixth line (3/5/3/3/7/5) for a total of 26 syllables.

I never

Liked to use the word

“Fall”. You see,

“Autumn” had

A lyrical quality,

While “Fall” sounded dead.

Then a new

Realization.

This “fall” was

Descriptive

Well beyond the veracious

Movement it describes.

The season

Is illustrated

Through the sound,

Of the word.

“Fall” begins with the whistling

Of breath through teeth, then

Connection

Is severed, and the

Syllable

Must plummet,

Falling through expansive space

Until it descends,

Bit by bit,

To the ground, meeting

Its brothers

That are now

Surrendering to death so

They might supply life.