"Like three wishes" [quasi-rictameter]
it seems
like three wishes
you're granted by a djinn
usually the first is wasted
the second likewise will come to no good
but you had best watch for the third
this is where everything
turns on its head!
(it seems)
written for an exercise
vide: Exercise - Poetry - Rictameter (Caferati on Ryze)
[ps -- I messed up; a real rictameter is based on count of syllables, not count of words. should be in lines 2/4/6/8/10/8/4/6/2 syllables; I did that, but counting whole words. So this is a new something, but not properly a rictameter. I'll classify it as a quasi-rictameter.]
posted by david raphael israel at 6:41 PM
3 Comments:
hey - now that form coupled with that blend of font colour is real imaginative...!!!
deadly...!!!
liked 'Is it conscionable?' a lot more - lol!
Twist,
thanks again --
I suppose there's a lot one can do messing with these simple elements in such a space, if one takes the time. This has seemed a curious "illustration" of the "concept" of the form. ;-)
CactusJump,
oh, you liked that poem more than you like this one? -- I wasn't even 100% sure I would bother blogging that one ;-) -- but on strength of your remark, perhaps I will. But it waits to be seen where this series goes with a 3rd one (if, that is, I fail to take my own advice and do write a 3rd one). Time will tell . . .
cheers,
d.i.
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