The Kiss

stars glittered
I shook from the cold
fearful shakes

soft lips touched
I smelled frost, leather, your skin
warmth spread from within

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Nancy’s prompt: Shadorma

This week, let’s write shadorma poems.

The shadorma is a compact Spanish syllabic form built from a six-line stanza with a strict syllable pattern: 3 / 5 / 3 / 3 / 7 / 5 (26 syllables total). It is typically unrhymed, and a poem may consist of a single stanza or a series of stanzas.

For this challenge, the theme is Sensory Details.

Write a close-up study of a single inanimate object or a very specific moment. Think small and focused rather than narrative or expansive. The power of the poem should come from sensory observation—what can be seen, heard, touched, smelled, or felt.
The key is to capture one concentrated moment through vivid sensory detail.

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