Nonet

I've been playing with poetry forms the last few weeks. A nonet has nine lines. The first line has nine syllables with each subsequent line decreasing by one syllable until the final line contains only one.




Nonet at Dawn

I awake to cloudy skies and wish
to stay swaddled in night-warm sheets
that coddle my lethargy,
keep me slip-sliding in
and out of waking
dreams that flee
the filtered
light of
day.

© Doraine Bennett