Sprite

Sprite

Once 

you were

close to me as flesh to bones

light to day

moon to dream

flies to honey.

Not really you, was it

that amber heart

glittered across my dark,

that voice, that breath

offering perplexing comfort

but just a sprite of you

ungrasped like a child's balloon

sent out to sail to

disappointing freedom--a popped prop,

bright red scraps, then dead-forgot

forever

yet here I stay

bud-eyes to the sky

immutable twisted root

hosting the symbiotic 

froth of fungi, the frozen nymphs,

underground and secretly

altering, 

or

flailing out a tendril, celebrating a twig,

rediscovering my wedding

of  worms, finalized at last

after a long engagement.

Old balloons still may sail 

on paper;

I stay here 

everspent but evergreen.

~April 2018

for Magaly's  Thirteen

the 13 words: 

flesh bones alter amber paper flies frozen breath voice comfort perplex memory rediscover

Image: The eye like a balloon sails to infinity, 1898, Odilon Redon      

Public Domain

The Trimetran Form Explored

 Geshna cannalis

Damn the worms!
Screw  them

and the rapaciousness

that turns unfurl’d Canna’s leaf to stem.

Dictated insect winner’s terms

and the rapaciousness

of a herd of maddened pachyderms!!!

Vile

vermin!

I respectfully submit this piece in the newly discovered Trimetran form for my readers' review. The Trimetran is a syllable-counting form with strict rhyme scheme, though no specified meter, which alone makes its composition possible. It was once thought to be the invention of the fictitious Dr. Enid MacFarquhar-Douglas, but that has proved to be a hoax, MacFarquhar-Douglas being a pseudonym for the even more pseudonymous Shay Fireblossom, known to have been observed flagrantly writing trimetrans on used but uncrumpled napkins at Danny's while the kitten Guiseppe Verdi rolled helplessly with laughter. 

You can read her Trimetran attempt (merely passable for a normal student of form but exceptionally well done for one who has not as yet composed even the simplest of shadormas, haikus or dyslexias) here at her post: The Trimetran Form

For those interested in the nuts and bolts of trimetranism, in the above post,  Prof Fireblossom extensively explains this challenging and exciting new development in poetic composition  sweeping across the blogosphere. Because I know you all have lives, I will spare you most of the highly advanced scholarly verbiage and technical terminology here in this handy Cliff Notes style summary:

Trimetran = nine lines

syllable count/rhyme scheme

3A

2B

6C

EE-I-EE-I-O

(with the final couplet unrhymed, of course.)

Warning! Whatever the beginner does, it is VERY IMPORTANT not to skip the homogeneous coupling of lines 3 and 6!!

Enjoy, fellow poets and helpless readers!