A baby grand! One day she'll play
her heart away.
Just now she thumps
With bangs and bumps,
but give her time and she will be
adept. You'll see!
Such joy she'll give
as will outlive
adversity, producing calm
with music's balm,
to soothe the strife
of daily life.
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Author Notes
The Minute Poem is a poem that follows the "8,4,4,4" syllable count structure. It usually has 3 stanzas that are exactly the same. So: 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables.
A traditional Minute Poem has 12 lines total. It has 60 syllables. It is written in a strict iambic meter. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff. However, for this contest there is not a requirement to follow the iambic meter rhyme scheme only to have a rhyme and the proper syllable count.
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