Within my heart there lives this girl,
hair long and curled.
Her smiling face
helps my heart pace.
My milk and honey, she's my life,
without a strife.
Her talk's tonic,
perfect phonic.
Dada-Abba she calls this bard,
her grand-dad scarred,
who lives for her,
a team we are.
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Writing Prompt |
Write a Minute Poem. The Minute Poem is rhyming verse form consisting of 12 lines of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter. The poem is formatted into 3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff. See an example and more details in the announcement. |
Author Notes
For Zainab, my granddaughter, who means the world to me.
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