Even Prompter

Spring Gogyohka

Spring Gogyohka

The ice melts
a slow procession of translucent drops
hanging for a moment above the precipice
before the suicidal plunge
to the glistening stone


Line count: 5
Gogyohka form
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 8
Prompt: The Gogyohka form - a five-line poem with one phrase per line.
Note: After examining several examples, I can find no consistent guide to punctuation and have chosen to adopt the most common form - no punctuation apart from the initial capital. Also, several examples use a single word as a line, as if it constitutes a phrase. Strictly speaking, this is not correct, the phrase being defined by the OED as “a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause”. I have tried to adhere to this in my gogyohka.