Filtered through Fluff

This poem is in the Irish form rannaigheacht mhôr (the great versification), which is reputed to be the most difficult form in the world.  It requires cadence, generic rhyme, generic consonance, dissonance, alliteration & echo - all in set patterns.

Filtered through Fluff




Moonlight falls, filtered through fluff
like a waltz you wilting catch
through rain's wrath—just a touch,
just a tang, half of a half.

We walk by the river road,
talking tall till giver God
leaves to light the spinning globe.
We grieve that the night is robbed

by the Cross of Christ alone.
Laws of love stretch to have room
righteous and romantic rain.
Bright dances and moans the moon.