Long Distance: A Shadorma*
(for my Queen of Shadorma, my long-distance sister Stella)
We’re thousand
miles apart yet our
hearts embrace,
souls unite,
daring distance’s dark demands,
far-friendship survives.
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©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved.
Photo credit: Unsplash
The Shadorma* is a simple syllabic verse form created by James Neill Northe that is most effective when written using strong words or phrases.
The Shadorma is:
- a hexastich, a poem in 6 lines although you certainly could choose to write any number of sixains in this syllabic pattern.
- syllabic, 3-5-3-3-7-5 syllables per line.
- unrhymed.
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In response to Mindlovemisery Menagerie: B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond – Tanaga, Revisited – May 14, 2016.
Lovely poem, Rosey! I love it.
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thank you so much dear PJ! ❤
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Gorgeous Shadorma!
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thank you very much! ❤
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Ohhhhh, now I can’t see my keyboard for all the tears…you are SO Beautiful, Rosey–you have blessed me beyond describing. I love you so! What a marvelous heart-to-heart poem, it’s wonderful!! God bless you “pressed down, shaken together, and running over”! xxoo Did I say “thank you”–I forgot! THANK YOU!!!!!!
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awww. You are SO beautiful, too, my sister Stella! ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
You are most welcome! And this is indeed a heart-to-heart poem! ❤
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I want to print it out and put it on my refrigerator so I can look at it “many” times a day, hahaha!! And of course I’ll probably brag to my cousin, too… 🙂
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awwwwww. that is so sweet of you! ❤ ❤ ❤
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No, you’re the sweet one!!
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we are both! 😀
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Okay ❤
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😉
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Beautiful poem. As always Rosema, you say so much in so few words. I really like that about your poems. It’s an awesome talent. I read another poem I think from Manan, which was the same form so now, I’m going to have to try the form for myself 🙂
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oh thank you, dear Mandi! 🙂 While you love my short poems let me tell you how i am in awe of your lengthy ones. 🙂 they just flow, freely and powerfully. that’s an AWESOME talent too! 🙂
P.S.
I have read your shadormas and you surely made them your own! ❤
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Thanks Rosema. Glad you liked it 🙂
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I really do! 🙂
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Thanks girl 💕
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my pleasure, Mandi!! Geez! That new photo is lovelier! ❤
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Haha. Thank you. I thought about your comment and I was like, I really should show a recent photo so I actually look like the picture. Happy you like this took this yesterday 🙂
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And the recent one if more gorgeous! And you indeed lose weight, MAndi!!!!
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Thank you Rosema. You are so sweet. I’m hoping so, a little each week is healthy 🙂 You are beautiful as well and I think more so because you don’t use all the products I use 🙂
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Oh I was actually planning to ask you how to use that eyeliner! HAHA
I am not good in makeup not because I am not fond of it but because I am too lazy and also my budget is limited. haha 😀
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Oh well. I like liquid eyeliner pens with a felt tip like point. If you ever can afford, Maybelline I know has some that are a good price. You start at the middle of your eye, pushing against you lash line and draw the line along your lash until you get to corner of your eye and then give it a little flick. Then go back to the middle of your eye and do your inner lash line. It takes practice and to be truthful, some days are better then others 🙂
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ooooooh. wow! you really ace using liquid eye liners! Geez! that’s awesome!
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Haha. Yeah I figured them out. The felt tip liners make it much easier then in the past. When you have $ to spend on that kind of thing, I’m sure you’ll be able to do it 🙂 💗
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oooh. 🙂 thank you for sharing! 😀
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Here Rosema, I opened up YouTube and there is a great eyeliner tutorial here. Hope it helps you sometime 🙂
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YAY! Thank you, Mandi!!! I believe I watched such videos but… I really can’t do it on my own! I end up looking like pandas! HAHAHAHA
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Practice, practice, practice 🙂
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Agree! 😀
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[…] there is a syllable pattern of 3/5/3/3/7/5 in each sestet. Thank you to Manan and Rosema for information on this type of poetry. Check-out their Shadormas in their links […]
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Thank you, Mandi! 😀
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I so love this–had to read it again!!
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awwww. I am soooo glad you love it. That’s from my heart to yours. ❤
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It’s too wonderful–what a blessed weekend I’ve had. Thanking God, and you, and others… 🙂
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Aww. that is so great to hear my dear sister. ❤
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Yes, thank you–I’m practically floating 🙂
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geez. you are most welcome! ❤
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❤
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Aww ❤ That is one of the best poems dedicated to a friend that I've read in a long time 🙂 Happy happiness and sunshine to both of you 🙂
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Awww. that is so sweet of you dearest NJ! Happiness and sunshine back to you! ❤
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Beautiful dedication to a lovely lady ☺️❤️
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thank you, dear Annie and she is indeed a lovely soul ❤
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. . . distance’s dark demands,
far-friendship survives.
These are words for life. Great advice. So encouraging!
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yay! thank you, Christopher! Sometimes distance break friendships and bonds. But I don’t want that. 🙂
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You certainly know how to say a lot in just a simple few words and know how to make it beautiful. This is lovely!
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Thank you! 🙂 It is a concious effort, to keep my poems short and simple. 🙂 Maybe because I am too lazy to write long ones? 😀
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“daring distance’s dark demands,
far-friendship survives.” Indeed! Magnificent tribute to friendship 🙂
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yay! thank you, Mel! WordPress showed me friendship can be built beyond distance! 🙂
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It showed me the same thing 🙂
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yay! 😀
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