Weave a net and catch a minute.

It doesn’t have

to win a prize,

Pulitzer or 

otherwise. It’s just a way to

nab some feelings,

capture a thought,

hold an image.

Folks do it all the time. It’s where

reason meets with 

rhyme, where common

becomes sublime.

                                                                                                 JDG

The minute is a poetic form consisting of three stanzas, four lines in each stanza. The first line of each stanza has eight syllables, followed by three lines of four syllables each -thus sixty syllables, one minute. Traditionally the minute is written in iambic meter and the rhyme is aabb, ccdd, eeff, but minutes are often written without a strict adherence to meter or rhyme.