Haunting
What is that
What is that
phantom I discern
through the fog?
Can it be…?
Yes! It’s that shadowy form
(whisper): shadorma.
At dVerse, in Meeting the Bar, we are invited to try a shadorma, a syllabic form with rather mysterious origins.
We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage /
And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, /
We Poets of the proud old lineage /
Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why ...
(James Elroy Flecker)
Haha! Exactly!
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