This is another photograph that my grandson, Jeremy, took with my camera, of a chipmunk eating bird seeds (saffron seed) off the railing of my back deck. This guy has been around for years, to the point that my grandson named him Nacho. He tends to take more than his fair share. I often chase him away so the birds can eat. He is cute though.

This poem is a Monotetra.
The Monotetra is a poetic form developed by Michael Walker. Each stanza contains four lines in mono-rhyme. Each line is in tetrameter (four metrical feet) for a total of eight syllables. What makes the Monotetra so powerful as a poetic form, is that the last line contains two repeated double rhymes. It can have as few as one or two stanzas, or as many as desired.

Stanza Structure:
Line 1: 8 syllables; a
Line 2: 8 syllables; a
Line 3: 8 syllables; a
Line 4: 4 syllables, a,a

This poem had 4 stanzasz, so the total rhyme scheme is:
a,a,a,(a,a) - b,b,b,(b,b) - c,c,c,(c,c) - d,d,d,(d,d).
I added a 2 line envoi.

This photo is one of the author's personal collection. It was taken July 10, 2016.

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