Sweet Sun: A Scallop*

Sweet Sun: A Scallop*

Sweet sun,
send me the moon.
Save soul slowly sinking,
steady sea I’m seeking,
where soul can soon
stay shun.

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In response to Daily Post: Scars and Napowrimo Day 25. (yes, I’m catching up! :D)

 

Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that begins with a line from a another poem (not necessarily the first one), but then goes elsewhere with it.

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The first two lines of this poem is from Sara Bareilles’ song: Send Me the Moon.

 

Darkness to light
Moved from day into night
To be near you
Still here I stand
I am sinking like sand
In your sea

Sweet sun
Send me the moon
Empty the skies out
Bringing me one step closer
To you
Send it soon
And I will breathe in, breathe out
‘Til you come in and out
Of view

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*Scallop

The Scallop is an invented stanzaic form written in sixains. It was created by Marie L Blanche Adams.

The Scallop is:

• stanzaic, written in any number of sixains.
• syllabic, 2-4-6-6-4-2 syllables per line.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme abccba deffed ghiihg etc.

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Read more of my Napowrimo 2016 poems here!