Today's inform challenge at Poetic Bloomings is short and sweet; the Dodoitsu. The Dodoitsu is a fixed folk song form of Japanese origin and is often
about love or humor. It has 26 syllables arranged as four lines of 7, 7,
7, 5 syllables respectively. It is unrhymed and non-metrical.
Soft rain slips a cool blanket
Over the rounded shoulders
Of a summer-weary earth
Drained of its laughter
© Janet Martin
We are love-loving the rain after a scorching summer!
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