Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

RICTAMETER

A rictameter is a nine line poetry form. The 1st and last lines are the same with the syllable count as follows:

* line 1 - 2 syllables - same as line 9
* line 2 - 4 syllables
* line 3 - 6 syllables
* line 4 - 8 syllables
* line 5 - 10 syllables
* line 6 - 8 syllables
* line 7 - 6 syllables
* line 8 - 4 syllables
* line 9 - 2 syllables - same as line 1

Here's one of mine...
Try it! Add one of yours to the thread.

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Even
blind men view lies
clearly, though their eyes know
no light. Verbal fabrications
tear through fibers of a sewn garment much
more swiftly than the sewing of
the seam. We wear fiction
like a shawl, un-
even.

I guess
I'll have to write
another one before
anyone else writes one on this
thread of words which is only now starting
so here are some more words for you
which perhaps will inspire
you to write one
I guess

Doreen, that's a really good poem, even without the syllable thing; even better with it! I like the line, "We wear fiction
like a shawl, un-
even."
Heavy.

hey bill! ... wanna try one, too?
thanks much!
this is fun... try it, ok?

it's a syllable thing... a puzzle...

......... here's another....



perfect
nuances can
become a matter of
arithmetic mixed recipe
though never are there ways to see fire in
chance or matter, despite desire,
since nuances are just
dire scenes, so not
perfect

Like pranks
pace themselves in
juxtaposition with
purpose, music makes love as to
a new psyche teased with perhaps, perhaps.
a flirt to resolve. – Flats happen
when stalled on stark highways
under bridges,
like pranks.

No way
to find the way
to the way of a played
footpath; toes to heels feel stones tramped
by metronome steps keeping rhythm
with heartbeats trapped in vowels and
consonants which tap on
phrases which know
no way

<center>for you,
because i care
to create comfort, ease,
i offer centering, from deep
in the core of your very being with
a peaceful flow of energy
from your freeing spirit,
because i care
for you</center>

heh

Hi Marge! How are you doing, sweet lady? What a lovely verse you have added to my lonely thread!

Welcome!

I added an html tag in the admin panel for ya! Just make html brackets and type "center" and "/center" and there you have it!

*smooch*

<center>i am a happy boy
without a ploy
just my normal slacking self
wanting
time for ease,
sur·cease impending
upending
recomendations from
others.....</center>

thanks for playing, jimbo...

i fixed your centering... the brackets needed to be html brackets like these < and > - sorry, i wasn't clear about that

<center>centering
my tooth hurts
nice fresh morning breeze
birds singing
</center>

Paper
cranes outnumber
flies organic swarming
through the origami heavens
still and statuesque while ever moving
mobile axis strings suspending
folded geometric
sails of peace-blown
paper.

<center>i am
a happy boy
without a ploy just my
normal slacking self wanting time
for ease, sur·cease impending upending
rec·om·men·da·tions from others.
to dig their borrowed time
and learn their songs
and rhymez.
....</center>

nice one joel, nice imagery, paper cranes unfolding

http://tanuki.org.uk/myjapan.html

<center>
Homeless
window-shopping
hadn’t touched my thinking
till I saw her dirt-cracked broken
feet and brittle plastic bagged possessions
overcome: her face shone back on
luxury. Can’t she hope
just because she’s
homeless?
</center>


I don't know if the centering thing here helps, hurts or doesn't matter. But I wanna be cool like the other kids. (Hmmmm...well, heck, why not give in now and then and admit to wanting to confrom once in a while....)