Frank Hubeny at dVerse challenges us to write a Chaucerian stanza or Rhyme Royal. This form employs a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, written in (usually) iambic pentameter metric lines (seven) in up to three stanzas. But I write haikai. What to do? Go poetic in the prose-poem, and break haiku rules and rhyme, that’s what!
Moon Madness
a single night under Diana’s light
and foaming at the mouth for something new
I wrestle with desires far from right
Save me from a simple point of view
longing as I am for something true
silhouetted ruins
windswept footprints in the dunes
lost to this high tide
Frank J. Tassone 
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