Oh my! I've reached the end of my rope.
OK then, I'll grab the knot that's just above and climb,
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Author Notes
It takes fortitude, conditioning, and the right attitude to climb out of a bad situation. That rope goes to heaven. That's the best way to head. With faith, you'll get help along the way.
In the interest of writing all poetic formats possible, I've come across another one which I was not familiar with. So here's mine.
This poem is a Landay.
A Landay is a form of folk poetry from Afghanistan. Meant to be recited or sung aloud, and frequently anonymous. The form is a couplet (2 lines) comprised of 22 syllables. Typically, the first line has 9 syllables and the second line 13 syllables. Being short, they may still carry a bite. (One meaning of the word landay is short, poisonous snake.) It was frequently the poetry of women in Afghanistan. The Landays are a way to subvert the social code in which women are prohibited from speaking freely. Since the poems are collective and anonymous women can claim they just overhead the poems in the marketplace, not the author of them. Their very shortness makes them easily communicated verbally. Besides being scathing or satyrical, they can be spiritual, or express love, passion, anger, hate, war, history, villains, environment, cities, or mountains.
The form is usually left justified when in printed form.
This picture was taken from Yahoo Images.
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