Honing the Craft

Week 39 Pendulum

Taking Charge

Order allows serenity
supporting sanity
and clarity.
Witty
writing
extols lighting
a fire to the mishmash,
with command rising from the ash.
                    ~~Judi Van Gorder

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8 Lines

Verse Form:
The Pendulum   is an invented verse form that features graduated line lengths. It was created by Etta J Murphy and was first published in Calkins, Haiku Highlights (July-August 1970) and found in Pathways for the Poet by Viola Berg. The elements of the Pendulum are:
          1. a poem in 8 lines, an octastich.
          2. syllabic, 8-6-4-2-2-4-6-8 syllables per line.
          3. rhymed, rhyme scheme aabbccdd.

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