W3 Prompt #202: Wea’ve Written Weekly

Tasty treat
Meant for a good boy
A reward
Saving it
For another day, he might
Decide to eat it

Made of pork
Wrapped up like a bone
Smells like meat
Should taste good
Carrying it from room to room
Saving it again

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Nancy’s prompt: Shadorma

This week, let’s write shadorma poems.

The shadorma is a compact Spanish syllabic form built from a six-line stanza with a strict syllable pattern: 3 / 5 / 3 / 3 / 7 / 5 (26 syllables total). It is typically unrhymed, and a poem may consist of a single stanza or a series of stanzas.

For this challenge, the theme is Sensory Details.

Write a close-up study of a single inanimate object or a very specific moment. Think small and focused rather than narrative or expansive. The power of the poem should come from sensory observation—what can be seen, heard, touched, smelled, or felt.

Possible subjects might include:

• a teacup on a table
• a dusty path
• a statue
• a piece of jewelry
• the stillness around a birth
• the quiet after a death

The key is to capture one concentrated moment through vivid sensory detail.

One stanza is fine. A series of shadormas is also welcome!