Poem: 26-4-2014

A curtal sonnet ( invented by G. Manley Hopkins ), form is a sestet, a quatrain and a half-line 6+4+1/2, rhyme scheme is abcabc  dbcdc 

WOODLAND WALK

Right behind the house is a stream

Across which starts the woodland

Under the tall trees is an ethereal glow

Afar a dead stillness, a soft daydream

Ahead a doe watches, than sprints inland

Behind me the stream’s lazy, slow flow

I close my eyes, open my third and walk

Birds sing, bees hum, happily painted land

The stream is a torrent, and the winds blow

The trees sway, whisper and poem-talk

                         Open the third eye below!

 ©2014 April        

Lalarukh Lasharie