Frankenberry's Attic

From Laura, a prompt at dVerse Poets looking to follow the lead of a poetry form invented by Margaret R. Smith (source here): with some meter some rhyme and some compound words.

It goes like this:

Poem’s title includes the stem word

15 lines

5 stanzas

3 lines per stanza

rhyme scheme a,a,b

meter 8/8/3

last line of each stanza includes a compound word using the same stem
e.g. footsore, footstool, footage; OR underfoot; pussyfoot etc

So, I was watching a new series the other night and at the end of an episode was the Church and their tune “Under The Milky Way” an old favorite and also, when you add the “tonight” happens to be 8 syllables so I thought to start there.

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(Pixabay – Felix-Mittermeier)

Skywrite (pale blue dot)

Under the Milky Way tonight

staring quietly absurd might

Blue’s skylight

.

Dead heretics minded it well

humbled only along truths dwelt

skymen found

.

an egoless silent hubris’d night

letting grand swirl command flights of

skyborne

.

fancies birthed of dust and of clay

with reason and magic making

of skywrote  

.

to help render from the under

the milky way in its wonder

skywriting