Colorado!

A Minute Poem for the Twisted Traditional Poetry Contest, Rd. 1

Colorado!


Colorado!
In snow
you play
each day.

Rockies soaring,
boring
into
the blue.

Mountain playground
I've found
regal,
peaceful.



PROMPT:
Write a Minute Poem (The Minute Poem is rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter. The poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff).
THE TWIST - Write it in 30 syllables (3 stanzas of 4,2,2,2; 4,2,2,2; 4,2,2,2 syllables. Good luck.