THE SECRET KEEPER has released our 16th writing prompt. This week our poetic forms are:

Haiku (5 – 7 – 5)
Tanka (5 – 7 – 5 – 7 – 7)
Shadorma (3 – 5 – 3 – 3 – 7 – 5)
six lines – no rhymes – multiple stanzas [your choice] – just follow meter
Nonet (9 – 8 – 7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 1) progression downward of syllables
Cinquain (2 – 4 – 6 – 8 – 2) five line poem on any theme with the earlier mentioned syllable pattern

Our buzz words are:  | COMFORT | HEAD | SPACE | MELT | WICKED |

After you have read and made your comments on my Nonet please check out the other submissions at the underlined link above.

While They Slept

by JE Lillie

“Comfort! Comfort my people!” He said.

Space  melted time and memory.

Spirits slumbered. Sleepy saints

Mistook the Living Head

For just another

Among wicked

Masses bent

To a

Cross.