Iron Poet XII, Batch III.

[cadhla]

Hello, and welcome to the third batch of poems written for round twelve of Iron Poet, the game where you give me three words and then go off to do something else while I slog through the roughly thirty thousand requests to give you a poem. Okay, not really, but sometimes it can feel that way. Please note that some rounds of Iron Poet can take a very long time to finish -- Iron Poet X ran from May 2006 to October 2007 -- so don't worry if your request seems to be taking a while; I get to them all eventually. It's just sometimes very eventual. I do poem round-ups every five to ten poems, to help keep people from missing anything.

Today's poems include:

* Match-Girl for iwishthat. (Free verse.)
* Cretaceous Midsummer Ball for rrie_selavy. (Rhyming verse.)
* The Spiral Turns for myuki_chan. (Counted devan without internal rhymes.)
* The Moon for laurenmitchell. (Terza rima.)
* The Crewman's Song for ceolyn. (Song form.)
* These Hours for nakitamanomiko. (Free verse.)
* Tidal Dancer for saoba. (Rhyming verse.)
* Winter Girls (Snow White, Reflected) for threeparts. (Jumprope poem.)
* Rust for maverick_weirdo. (Ovillejo.)
* Forever Halloween for snowcoma. (Rhyming verse.)
* Cold Now for soundingsea. (Elegiac couplets.)
* Sacrifice for mightyhunter. (Heroic couplets.)
* Violets for ash_of_roses. (Virelai nouveau.)

This round is CLOSED to new submissions. I'll be opening a new round...someday. When I finish the various other things I have pending, and my personal madness allows.