I've been searching a bit online for some "new" and different poetry forms. I discovered a site, The Writer's & Poetry Alliance Club, that not only explains traditional poetic forms, but includes numerous invented forms as well.
The diatelle is syllabic form with a rhyme scheme. It looks a bit like a double etheree, but it is different. Here are the guidelines.
syllable pattern: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 / 10 / 8 / 6 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1
rhyme scheme: a b b c b c c a c c b c b b a
That's it. Easy-peasy, right? I hope you'll join me this week in writing a diatelle. Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.
Texas Panhandle
ReplyDeleteGrit.
Black spilt-
sugar silt
what chills the bone.
Deep-hid beneath the quilt,
starry shroud, shouldered by what’s known
of Sweet Dreaming man, lying still as stone
where the Caprock meets the sky, clear as holy writ.
Bareback, she rides. Barefoot, full-out, full blown,
chasing midnight shards of love, thrown
like seeds, in yet untilled
fields. Reaps grown,
gold – gilt
lit.
© 2016 jRobinson
remembering Buddy Holly and his Marina Elena