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I wrote my shadorma diptych, Glass, in response to the W3 Poetry Prompt #202, where the poet of the week, Nancy Richy, invites us to write a shadorma as a close‑up study of a single inanimate object or a very specific moment. You can read her full prompt guidelines below.

Read Nancy’s shadorma guidelines here

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.

I hope you enjoy my shadorma. Cheers!

Glass

I look through
the bottom of the
brandy glass
thoughts astray
I gaze through the liquid swirl
take another sip

I look through
the bottom of an
emptied glass
thinking blurs
through this lens I see a whirl
need an aspirin

_{—Lesley Scoble, March 2026}

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Glass — Audio Narration

Narrated by me.

THANK YOU
Thank you, Nancy, for your wonderful prompt.
Thank you, David, without whom many a poem would not be written.
And my thanks to you, dear reader, for spending time with my poem.

W3 Prompt #202: Wea’ve Written Weekly