Solfège

Pléiade

Swans have morals, don’t they?

Strong of neck, of feather

Soft as down floating down

Shadow flocks of them come

Stare at me in my dreams

Speak in their harsh hisses

Sprawl across my body

Pleiades

This titled form was invented in 1999 by Craig Tigerman, Sol Magazine’s Lead Editor. Only one word is allowed in the title followed by a single seven-line stanza. The first word in each line begins with the same letter as the title. Hortensia Anderson, a popular haiku and tanka poet, added her own requirement of restricting the line length to six syllables.

Spoken

Sculpted strength laid bare as

Shoulders squared, bunched against cries

Support natural selection

Silence naked not golden

Stab at vast sea of despair

Sorrow rare-spoken, broken

Sinner structure diminished

 

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Pleiades

This titled form was invented in 1999 by Craig Tigerman, Sol Magazine’s Lead Editor. Only one word is allowed in the title followed by a single seven-line stanza. The first word in each line begins with the same letter as the title. Hortensia Anderson, a popular haiku and tanka poet, added her own requirement of restricting the line length to six syllables.

Drowning

Distant ghosts breathe closer

Departed mist filled mouths

Dying to kiss. Again

Do you feel cool air close

Down the back of your neck

Distracting you, forming

Delicate, dark vapour

 

 

Pleiades

This titled form was invented in 1999 by Craig Tigerman, Sol Magazine’s Lead Editor. Only one word is allowed in the title followed by a single seven-line stanza. The first word in each line begins with the same letter as the title. Hortensia Anderson, a popular haiku and tanka poet, added her own requirement of restricting the line length to six syllables.