A Cherita

winter

a fresh white
page

on the ground
leaves are still
lingering

lingering
leaves are still
on the ground

page
a fresh white

winter

Kim M. Russell, 30th November 2023

Image by Andrew Ridley on Unsplash

Today at the dVerse Poets Pub we are Meeting the Bar with Laura, who reminds us that we are ‘at the very end of November with a final flourish of a farewell to Autumn and a beckoning wave to the oncoming winter in the Northern hemisphere’.  She has given examples of ‘the feeling many of us have at this seasonal cusp’ in ‘November for Beginners’ by Rita Dove (from which I borrowed the opening line and a bit for a recent Prosery) and ‘November’ by Amy Lowell.

Our challenge is to write one of the most unrestrained, undemanding poetry forms – The Cherita, a consecutive poetry form in three stanzas: a single line, a couplet and a tercet. Our Cheritas must be in a mirrored 2 part form: 1;2;3 and a second part of 3;2;1 line stanzas, and the title should be either ‘Untitled’ or ‘A Cherita’. There should be no rhymes; there are no syllable restrictions; the line lengths are at our own discretion; and the poem can be centred on the page.

45 thoughts on “A Cherita”

    1. Thank you, Laura. It took ages to get it like that – I shouldn’t have taken the prompt so literally. I only realised it didn’t have to mirror exactly when I read Grace and Bjorn’s poems.

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