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Rated: E · Poetry · Fantasy · #2157733
Swimming in the depths, a giant fish lives. Or is it?
A giant fish
Swims, swish
Has hands
Hair strands

Hides in the reef
Mad chief
Now night
Shark fight!

A human plea
Needs sea
Hopes fade
Mermaid







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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).

THE TWIST - Write it in 30 syllables (3 stanzas of 4,2,2,2; 4,2,2,2; 4,2,2,2 syllables.
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