Rain
splashes gravel road and rocks;
wind sweeps
the sheltered pond
and slides
the turtles off the dock.
Churning
water framed by fronds
hinting
where the turtles glide:
no longer
near they are beyond
in brackish
water gone to hide.
This is a brief experiment with terza rima, used for more dignified purposes by Dante in The Divine Comedy. The "chained" rhyme pattern is aba, bcb, cdc, etc. with a last single line rhyming with the middle line of the previous stanza.
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