Le Voyage Magnifique

Mondo: 7/8/2020

What bewitching charms
do sultry summer nights hold
over souls of innocents?

         Fireflies flicker, float,
         mingle among dancing stars,
         as river of life rolls on.

Notes on the Mondo form of poetry ▼

Mondo poems are often very brief collaborative affairs that present a question and answer in the style of trying to glean meaning from nature. Mondos can be as short as a one-liner or as long as two 5-7-7 syllable stanzas (the first stanza presenting the question; the second the answer).

For this round, your poems need to follow the two stanza rule, please.

So, in summary,

2 stanzas
syllable counts for each stanza: 5-7-7
nature related

Example:

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by Robert Lee Brewer

why do winter stars
shine brighter than summer stars
and why do i notice them?

i can't hear them laugh,
but i remember the way
they once entered the darkness.