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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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.
