General Poetry posted June 13, 2017


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Rictameter

Summer.

by Sanku

We pall.
when this summer
tells the tale of dried up
rivers, parched throats and dead beat minds;
of luscious mangoes and moonlit madness
cooling the sapped souls of earthlings.
birds twitter, squirrels scram
but the humans?
We pall.






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A rictameter has 9 lines with a syllable count of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, with the last lines word/s identical to the first. Rhyming is not needed.


Luscious golden mangoes are the only silver lining of this unbearably hot summer.
Thank you Lilla for this fantastic picture.
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