Lights Out
Night
Spreads out
Her darkness
Over the earth
As she beckons the weary mind to sleep.
Cricket songs and the soft light of moonbeams
Stage a slumber
Set to play
Until
Dawn.
Cynthia Buhain-Baello~~~03.31.16
Tetractys, a poetic form consisting of at least 5 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 10
syllables (total of 20). Tetractys can be written with more than one verse,
but must follow suit with an inverted syllable count.
Double Tetractys maybe written as: 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 10, 4, 3, 2, 1,
Copyright © Cynthia Buhain-Baello | Year Posted 2016
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