This month's form was pantoum.  A fun form which I would have liked to have spent additional time exploring.  The words we agreed to incorporate were "flight" and "certainties".

steppes

By John C Lewis

(all rights reserved, 4/9/15)

ascend this flight of barren steppes

attain the rough-hewn certainties

afforded by these endless plains

astride a charger fierce and fast

attain the rough-hewn certainties

amid the sage and sha da wang

astride a charger fierce and fast

alongside falcon, lynx and fox

amid the sage and sha da wang

afforded by these endless plains

alongside falcon, lynx and fox

ascend this flight of barren steppes

rejected phrases

4/20/2015

(By John C. Lewis; all rights reserved)

rejected phrases take to flight

wistfully circling the newborn poem

convinced their time will never come

forlornly they seek a different home

wistfully circling the newborn poem

bruised by the certainties of slight

they move off to seek a different home

to find a form that’s their birthright

bruised by the certainties of slight

convinced their time will never come

to find a form that’s their birthright

rejected phrases take to flight