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On Dewy Grass: A Sijo

Nancy's Notes 🖊️♬

Written for Living Poetry where our host,
Bartholomew asks us to write any form of
poem using the image shown below as
inspiration. Here’s where the prompt took me.

Image courtesy Bartholomew @ Living Poetry

Small ears catch the wind’s gentle whisper,
dew still fresh upon the grass.
Alert eyes reading every shadow,
watching, waiting, still as stone.
A young heart beats wildly in the green;
one soft breath, then gone.


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Nancy’s Notes: I have written a nature sijo using the syllable format of 9/7/9/7/9/5.

This is “Dew on the Grass” by Will Harrison

May Visual Poetry Prompt

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