Snow's Writing for 2019, 2020, & Beyond

Listening to Spiritual Music

I listen to the music play,
Willingly weep
Before my soul kneels to pray.

Poet's Note: ▶︎

Line Count: 3
Form: Kōel: Theme: Traditionally, the poem is used to explore a singular emotion or state, such as joy, innocence or suprise. Structure: The kōel consists of one or more stanzas. Each stanza has three lines. There's no general rule for the length of each line, but they must follow a vowel-consonant-vowel structure. That is: Line 1 and 3 must end with an open vowel rhyme. Like "no" and "go", "cry" and "sky" etc. The rhyme does not have to be the same for each stanza. Line 2 must have alliteration. That means that the main words in the line must start with the same consonant sound, although connector words don't need to be included in this.
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