Moon shovel scooping sky: late autumn job Dry pear leaves rattle downwards, escaping shovel moon. Tree in bare-armed silhouette tickles the stars. In the west Mars' eye glints.
Written for MLMM’s Saturday Lucky Dip – Tetractys
A Tetractys is 20 syllables (1,2,3,4,10). If repeating: 2nd stanza (10,4 3,2,1)
Out of the Cave 
I like the idea of tickling the stars
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Thank you. đ
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Nice work with this form!
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Thanks. There’s nothing like syllable counting to reduce verbiage! It’s like a form of poetic weeding. đ
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Haha, good point! I dabble in it occasionally…
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Oh, beautiful. I haven’t heard of Mary’s star and looked it up. Very fitting.
I had thought that some folks when they saw the planet Venus in the morning thought of it as a morning star. But perhaps I was mistaken.
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Very clever. I like all of these images with the shovel moon and the leaves escaping it. đ
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Thank you so much! So glad that bit came across clearly. With the syllable counting, I thought I might have lost some meaning. đ
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It can be a bit tricky, but I thought it came across well. đ
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Moon shovel hopefully turning over new soil.. Great tickling branches; wha a wonderfully whimsical verse.
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đ. Thank you.
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