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Call for Poetry Submissions: Krisis: Poetry at the Crossroads // Be a part of an upcoming dVerse anthology in celebration of our 15th anniversary!
Hurry! Submission period closes June 30, 2025. More information here.
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Here we are almost at the solstice with summer in the Northern Hemisphere now not far away and having selected the theme for this prompt, my thoughts immediately turned to the Bard and Sonnet 18:

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: 
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; 
And every fair from fair sometime declines, 
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; 
But thy eternal summer shall not fade...”[more]

So too did Lord Byron write of his lover in likened terms:

“She walks in beauty, like the night 
Of cloudless climes and starry skies; 
And all that’s best of dark and bright 
Meet in her aspect and her eyes: 
Thus mellowed to that tender light
 Which heaven to gaudy day denies..."[more]

And so for this MTB challenge we are writing as per the poetry form devised by Karan Naidu, which he called a Parallelogram de Crystalline (apparently dedicated to his soulmate, Crystal Rose)

Poetry Rules: Despite the titular length it is quite simple and short!

• 12 lines in total (each Capitalised but without punctuation)
• 4 verses
• 3 lines per verse
• syllable count per verse 3,6,9
• unrhymed

Poetry Theme: the beauty of a (real or imaginary) lover as compared with and described in images of nature.
(Crystalline literally means very clear or bright, therefore, keep the complementary images crisp.)

Details & Example:
Future Trends in Poetry with Crystalline Poetry (scroll towards the bottom of page)

So once you have posted your poem according to the guidelines above, do add it to Mr Linky below then go visiting and reading other contributors as that is half the fun of our dVerse gatherings. Please also TAG dVerse in your post, or include a link at the end of your poem that leads readers back to dVerse (https://dversepoets.com).

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