Roberta Writes – A guitar birthday cake, and W3: a San san poem and a rain dance #poetry #photography

W3 a San san poem

II. Kerfe’s prompt guidelines

• Thematic (required): Write a poem inspired by-
  1. A song about dancing, or-
  2. A song you like to dance to;
• Form (required): “San san”.

San san?

The “san san” poetic form has three requirements:

1. Eight lines;
2. Rhyming: a-b-c-a-b-d-c-d;
3. Repetition: Three terms or images in the verse must be repeated 3x each.

I’m late with this post. What can I say, I had a life sized guitar to make this weekend for Michael’s birthday and it didn’t leave much time for other things. I also made Gregory a hummingbird cake for his birthday and I cooked chicken korma for 20 people and made salads and vegetables to go with it.

And now for the poem:

Rain Dance

We must dance to summon the rain

The land is parched; thirsty cattle low

We must dance to appease the gods

It’s not easy to please the gods; they’re vain

We must dance for rain so the rivers flow

The gods always admire our feathers and beads

We twirl and stamp, hitting the ground with rods

When rain comes, we’ll plant life sustaining seeds

Thank you to David for the inspiration: https://skepticskaddish.com/2024/02/07/w3-prompt-93-weave-written-weekly/