A Matter of Posture

I woke to rain where sun once shone
Things planned in May now lie in wait
Inside I move with clouded gait

Seems long ago my skin was bronze
Why stuck between this then and now
Empty hands in heart my head bowed

I stretched my body head to toe
Seemed effortless no sweaty brow
Soaked I listen; no birdsong vow

No bitter chill nor brittle bone
Can calm the storm or quench the rain
Today’s loss is tomorrow’s gain

Now light bends each to mourn and groan
Tis hope embracing every vine
Wait! One day soon we’ll sip new wine

I woke to rain where sun once shone
Seems long ago my skin was bronze
I stretched my body head to toe
No bitter chill nor brittle bone
Now light bends each to mourn and groan

Dversepoets.com Thursday prompt. Bjorn says this may be out of our comfort zone. What is a comfort zone? (She asks with a smirk 🤔😘)

He explains it better than I,

“Today we are going to try our hand at a poetic form created by Connie Marcum Wong in 2007. I have tried it a few times before, but I have not found it in our dVerse archive.
This is an example of two poems in one with one short poem being expanded in a longer poem. It consists of at least 5 three-line stanzas written in iambic tetrameter (8 syllables and four feet). The first lines of each of the 5 stanzas form an independent poem (hence with at least 5 lines),
In each 3-line-stanza the ending couplets should rhyme and expand on the topic on the first line.
The internal poem given by the first lines should be reinforced by being written in monorhyme (all lines should rhyme with each other)
The rhyme scheme is, therefore: a/b/b a/c/c, and so on.
The poem should end with the internal poem.”

Recently I wrote a Spanish glosa which is similar which made it easier than I thought it would be. That is, if I did it correctly.