Strobing
Probing
Feeling
Healing
Doc controls her strobing, probing pokes,
Showing caring feeling, healing folks.
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| Writing Prompt |
Tyburn
A six line poem consisting of 2, 2, 2, 2, 9, 9 syllables.
The first four lines rhyme and are all descriptive words. The last two lines rhyme and incorporate the first, second, third, and fourth lines as the 5th through 8th syllables.
Example #1:
Death
Blackest
Darkest
Coldest
Oldest
Burning in the Blackest, Darkest night
There in lives the Coldest, Oldest fright
Copyright © 2001 Mike McCann
Example #2:
-Mindless Love-
Loveless
Hopeless
Darkness
Mindless
Dead heart feeling Loveless, Hopeless mind,
True loves to the Darkness, Mindless find.
Copyright © 2004 Peter A. Rosado
Example #3:
Myself
Sowing,
Hoeing,
Growing,
Mowing,
Planting gardens, sowing, hoeing grounds.
Sunshine keeps all growing, mowing mounds.
Copyright © 2004 Marion Gibson
Example #4:
Diana
Willful
wistful
playful
peaceful
she can have a willful wistful day
yet she has a peaceful playful way
Copyright © 2004 Diana Dalton |
Author Notes
NOTE
The title refers to the adage, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." The author recommends the poem's lady physician instead.
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