To believe, or: Heaven leans on earth

Enjoy the Cleave Poem, done with two Shadormas — by David

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A Cleave poem

in the form of two Shadormas

as I age		rhythms shift
over endful days		whetting my senses
transformed by		a wisdom
existing		beyond me
in the perceived universe		calling unrelentingly
I’ve come to believe		heaven leans on earth

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How to read a cleave poem?

Simply:

1. Read the left hand poem as a first discrete poem.
2. Read the right hand poem as a second discrete poem.
3. Read the whole as a third integrated poem.

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Shadorma

• The Shadorma is a Spanish poetic form made up of a stanza of six lineswith no set rhyme scheme (rhyme is optional);
• It is a syllabic poem with a meter of 3/5/3/3/7/5;
• It can have many stanzas, as long as each follows the meter.

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#TankaTuesday

The above was written for Colleen M. Chesebro’s ‘Tanka Tuesday’ prompt.

Poets were encouraged to write syllabic poems on the theme of “lessons from nature”.

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