Rhopalic Verse: (from Greek "rhopalon"--a club which is thicker at one end)
Lines in which each successive word has one syllable more than the one before it.
Here is an example.
TAPESTRIES
Small spiders filigree
the garden greenery
with silken precision. Delicately, definitively,
they network tapestries
that capture
more
than morning's glorious
dew.
Poem ©Avis Harley. All rights reserved.
I hope you'll join me this week in writing a rhopalic verse. Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.
Yes, it's fall, but I've written a spring poem!
ReplyDeleteGlad Morning
Glad morning tinkering
with sunlight. Jiggling
winds, testing daffodils,
new tulips. Delicate
green growing, intricate
odd plantings, tomorrow’s
tall gardens. Delightful experiments.
—Kate Coombs, 2015
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