April PAD 2013 – Day 7

2013 APRIL PAD CHALLENGE: DAY 7

For today’s prompt, write a sevenling poem. Never heard of a sevenling poem? Well, it’s a 7-line poem (chosen because today is the 7th day of the challenge) that features two tercets and a one-liner in the final (third) stanza. My poem below illustrates the form. The first two stanzas should have an element of three in them that can either play off each directly, work as juxtaposition, or have no connection whatsoever. The final line should work as either a punchline, weird twist, or punctuation mark.

Here’s my attempt at a sevenling poem:

“sevenling”

she wanted most of all–
two hands, a good heart,
lips with soft words.

she found instead
two cats, an empty bed,
slips of former love letters.

her records always work.

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Now for Mine: (Keith's) ^ the above was by Writer's Digest.

Contribution

by : Keith Dozier

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You contribute to this earth-

Notes, lines or bars

In the symphony that is..

No matter how long,

Or how goes your song--

We all are instruments.

We want at least one to hear us, right ?