Wine
should be
savored like
a grand epic
filtered throughout with
barely audible hints
of blackberry and currant,
joined among swirls of licorice.
A dressed-up ballroom duo, noshing
creamy avocado wedges a-
top crispy crackers heaped with slices of
sharp orange cheddar from Wisconsin.
Accompanied by a sweet, good
looking Filipino man
that croons steamy songs
to pale, earthy girls
beneath moon’s blush
nightly, on
a cruise
ship.
A poem that starts with one syllable per line, increases to ten syllables, and then decreases back down to one is called a Double Etheree (or sometimes a stacked or diamond Etheree).
The Etheree form was created by Arkansas poet Taylor Armstrong in the late 1970s.
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C. S. De Dona
Author, Poet, Photographer, domestic violence survivor, and naturalized immigrant, Cornelia is currently an Arts and Letters member of The Southwest Florida Branch of The National League Of American Pen Women.
Cornelia lived in Kaneohe, Hawaii, for thirty-six years. Also, seven years in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York. She now resides in North Fort Myers, Florida.
Her poems and photography are published in print, online, and in Rain Bird, a literary and art journal of the University of Hawaii's Windward Community College (2008-2013).
In 2013, Cornelia received Rain Bird's Kolokolea Poetry Prize for her poem, "Speaking French."
In 2016, her chapbook "Hawaiian Time," entered in the National League of American Pen Women's Vinnie Ream contest, was awarded third place in their inaugural multi-discipline category.
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