Your challenge is simply(!):
▪write a sonnet poem of 14 lines and 10 syllables (iambic pentameter is optional extra)
▪choose the Italian, English or French rhyme form
▪start and end each line with the same word (including derivatives and homophones)
▪put ‘shadow’ or its derivative in your title
▪use the notion of shadow as metaphor or reality somewhere in your poem
Shadow Dreaming (A shadow sonnet without the 10 syllable iambic pentameter)
By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris
White and pure as Snow White
Sleeping not gone only sleeping
Upon the frozen tundra she lays upon
Awaken my beauty and I will awaken
Run free with me to the sea where dolphins run
Water glistening against their skin as snow melts into water
Warmth engulfs us sea-life welcomes us with warmth
Transformed from fur the sea our souls transformed
Wolf and woman no more woman…
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