May
Buds swell on the stalk
greening, growing opening
tasting sun and rain and wind
sweet-talking Summer
take my hand and follow me
all we have is potential
This poetic form is called Sedoka, which consists of two shorter poems, called katautas, smoothed together. A katauta is a three line poem that has a syllabic pattern of 5/7/7. So of course the Sedoka has 38 syllables over six lines that read as 5/7/7/5/7/7.
