It's the 2026 Poem-a-Week Challenge (This is a *poems only* thread.)

[_Land]

cinqain
counting fingers
each line plus two extra
syllables expanding outward
**Boom. Math.**

8/52

 

[NivKay]

Persephone in Darkness (companion to @Angeline 's Winter Tanka)

Persephassa, I,
Hold, am held in, earth's cold cage,
I hear them, they cry
From their hell my proscrib'd name,
like a distant warm embrace.

Week 2, Poem 6, Total 6