This week's Monday Poetry Stretch was to write a Lai - a "French syllabic verse form
consisting of one or more stanza of nine lines with two rhymes", a rhyme scheme of a-a-b-a-a-b-a-a-b and additional restrictions of 5 syllables in the 'a' lines and only 2 syllables in the 'b' line.
All in all, a very concise and tight poetry form, and not easy to write to. Here's a quick, somewhat grim, 'Lai' I slapped together:
Someone should have told me never to 'Lai' (all puns intended) ... :)
Warning: A-lai-ve or Dead
The Vampires arise
Under savage skies
To seek
A suck-culent prize
Oh, how they despise
The meek
They've planned your demise
So say your goodbyes
This week.
Copyright (c) 2012, Vikram Madan
Someone should have told me never to 'Lai' (all puns intended) ... :)
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