Tree’s Tableau*

Sways with the soft wind
produces new leaves,
bears flower and fruits
stands firm on its roots.
With changing seasons,
it breathes with reasons.

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Photo credit: Unsplash

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In response to OctPoWriMo 2016 by Morgan Dragonwillow‘s Day 19.

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The Tableau is an invented stanzaic form that paints a single image in keeping with the name of the form, tableau meaning picture. Created by Emily Romano who suggests the word “tableau” be included in the title. The Tableau is:

• stanzaic, written in any number of sixains.
• syllabic, 5 syllable lines.
• rhyme at the discretion of the poet.
• written describing a single image.
• written with a title that includes the word “tableau”.