Here is a poem that I wrote asking Jesus to help me kill my sin. It is written in the form of a cinquain chain, where the last line of each stanza forms the first line of the succeeding stanza. The first line of the poem is also its last. The rhyming pattern with each stanza is ABBCC. May it bless you, Nahum.
I recently worked for about two months as a freight delivery driver before my promised employment was ruthlessly and unfairly denied me. Delivering freight in the middle of an Australian summer is hard work, but I came to enjoy it and I even bonded well with the people whom I worked with on a day-to-day basis. Here is a poem that I wrote about honey quenching thirst on a hot day in such conditions. It is written in the form of a Vietnamese lục bát, where the odd lines have 6 beats and the even lines have 8 beats. The 6th beat in the odd lines rhyme with the 6th beats in the even lines (if that makes sense!). The 8th beat of the even lines rhyme with the 6th beat of the next line. Finally, the last line of the poem also rhymes with the first line. Enjoy!
This week I wrote two poems named Gardener, Help Me Grow. Both have been written in the form of a rondeau where the rhyming scheme is R-aabba aabR aabbaR; The R is a repeated phrase, or a rentrement as the French call it, which states the theme of the poem; in this case it is “Gardener, Help Me [Grow]”.
Both are trochaic, where the stress moves from heavy to light (e.g. gar-dener). The first poem has 9 beats per line and the second has 7 beats per line. I wanted to share both poems because they’re similar but also different. They have alternative shades of meaning and one sounds more meditative than the other due to its longer word length. God bless, Nahum.
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