A collection of poems for The National Poetry Month 2020.
All in different forms. Each a learning experience.
🏆 First place in Azurite Awards (Moonstone - Poetry)
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The wishes that fly from dandelions, Are hopes bright as a hundred suns; Wisps of loving desires rising high, Tufts of dreams floating in the sky; Bright, sweet and magical flower, Mere weeds that wishes do shower; As into the air fly the dandelions.
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The above poem is in the Septilla (Spanish Septet) form.
This seven line form was originally octosyllabic (8 syllables) but now tetrameter or pentameter are equally acceptable. There is a certain amount of flexibility with this form and there is a choice of rhyme schemes with either aabccba or abbacca or aabbcca
