Death Spills

Death Spills: A Lai*

Twas a normal day
within blooming May
until
blue clouds turns to gray,
it’s too late to pray,
or kneel,
your soul flew away,
left bones to decay—
death spills.

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In response to May Book Prompts –  by Sarah Doughty and MahWrites.

Today’s prompt is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.

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The Lai* is a short story in verse. In its strictest form it is a verse form with a rhymed syllabic pattern in three tercets.

The Lai as verse form is:

• a narrative, tells a story.
• usually a nonet, 9 lines made up of 3 tercets. It can be a hexastich made up of 2 tercets.(When written in 9 lines is can also be called a Bergerette or a Viralai stanza.)
• rhymed, rhyme scheme aab aab aab.
• syllabic, syllables per line are 5-5-2 5-5-2 5-5-2
• Tradition states that the short line must not be indented; it must be left dressed to the poem.