The nonet is a nine line poem with a diminishing number of syllables in each line. The first line containing nine syllables, the next eight, the next seven, and so on. This pattern continues until the last line (the ninth line) has only one syllable.
There is no rhyme requirement and nonets can be written about any subject.
There is no rhyme requirement and nonets can be written about any subject.
You can read more about this form and see a few examples at Write Tribe.
I hope you'll join me this week in writing a nonet. Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.
Elegy for a Little Fly
ReplyDeleteSmall black body lies on windowsill.
He has circled for the last time.
Buzzing, diving now are done.
No longer annoying,
all he is today
is a final
glimmering
silent
wing.
—Kate Coombs, 2015
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Oooh, Kate. You used the form to great advantage. It perhaps requires either dwindling or burgeoning, do you think?
ReplyDeletePrescription: Preparation H*
Here we are, simplifying our lives.
Each day we open a closet
and unearth another box.
We have not looked at these
things for months, even
years. Still we sort
things to save,
cursed by
piles.
--Heidi Mordhorst 2015
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*Hoarderrhoids
Hahaha. You totally got me, Heidi! And good point about the form requiring either dwindling or burgeoning.
DeleteLATE AFTERNOON THOUGHT
ReplyDeleteSwaying on hammock as sunlight streams
through each leafy shield of green, I
sip lemonade, wondering
how summer is over
faster than a blink
and tomorrow
is the first
day of
school.
(c) Charles Waters 2015 all rights reserved.