"For Everything There is a Season"
dVerse - MTB: Imagism in 5 The Cadralor Not a form I am familiar with, the Cadralor is an invented form named for its inventors, Lori Howe and Christopher Cadra. * 5 numbered stanzas * choose 3-10 lines per stanza (but keep same chosen stanza length throughout) * each stanza stands alone as an imagist poem (just the obliquest of connections) * 5th stanza pulls the 4 unrelated stanzas together into a poem of love, of yearning * rhymes and syllabic meter are NOT wanted I I don’t go to the far back of my yard anymore. I t’s dead; the grass, onions, parsley, gone. I let it die; its prior beauty gone, now crunchy underfoot, II T he wind blew over the fence, such as it was. I left it there, nothing to fence in, or out, except the persistent raccoons that straddle the top boards at dawn . III G eese honk overhead on their way south, the stragglers louder as they strive to catch up to the lopsided Vs of their fellow migrants. IV Autumn leaves drift down, carpet ing...
