Monday, November 02, 2015

Monday Poetry Stretch - Rictameter

Created in 1990 by two cousins, rictameter is a nine line poetry form in which the 1st and last lines are the same. The syllable count is 2/4/6/8/10/8/6/4/2.

You can learn more about this relatively young form at Wikipedia, or read some examples at Shadow Poetry.

I hope you'll join me this week in writing a poem in the form of rictameter. Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.

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  1. Last Night

    Last night
    the cold showed up.
    Now the grass and flowers
    believe that it’s fall. But not me.
    Yesterday the sky sang blue. The sun shone
    like a kindergartner drew it,
    like it should have a smile.
    (It was so cold
    last night.)

    —Kate Coombs, 2015
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  2. Everything I did (and everyone of these I read with the exception of Kate's) sounded like statements not poems. Maybe I just don't get this form.

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    1. So you wrote "Light and Shade"--beautiful!

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  3. You

    You are
    the crest upon
    a robin’s chest, the blue
    in a bluebird’s feathery nest.
    You’re the song I sing when I go to sleep,
    the words I pray my soul to keep
    when I need to be strong…
    and if I’m not—
    you are.

    -- (c) jgk, 2015

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