This is a poem that I wrote (in the form of a ballad) about the reality of eternity and how that makes life a serious thing. Each stanza has four lines with iambic stress. The 1st and 3rd lines each have eight beats and do not rhyme, while the 2nd and 4th lines each have 6 beats and do rhyme. God bless, 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!
Here is a poem that I wrote over the last week. It is written in trochaic tetrameter in envelope rhyme; this is a fancy way of saying that each line has 7 beats and the sounds are stressed in a way that goes from hard to soft. Each stanza has four lines where the rhyme goes a-b-b-a. May it bless you. Nahum.
Liquørice Fjørds 