The Stafford Challenge, Day 53

Trying the monotetra again today (8-syllable lines, aaaa quatrains, and at the end, a 4-syllable half line doubled). More on the monotetra at Robert Lee Brewer's Write Better Poetry blog, here. Speaking of Brewer's blog, I used one of his poetry prompts today: the most recent Wednesday prompt from 5 March 2025: a "lost poem." Monotetra on Loss —after "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop “Their loss is no disaster,” wrote Elizabeth Bishop, once. But is that really true? How about “lost door keys”? Might lost door keys meet the criteria of disastrous loss? Shut out of a dead lover’s home, never to smell her precious perfume. Always perfume. All ways that she will be gone forever. That faint scent of lost lavender fading from memory, never to recover, to recover. —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Photo by MSA-90 from Pixabay That 4-syllable half line repeated at the end is tough. Any thoughts on my experimentation with the last line in each of the stanzas? Yes, critique welcome . . . comment below, please. Also, what about the slant monorhymes? Thanks. Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. Ingat, everyone.  ヅ