This week, I decided to try out a new poetry form known as a memyric. The memyric was invented by Lancelot of Pleiades and uses four-line stanzas of five, three, eight, and three syllables respectively, with the two three-syllable lines rhyming. The last word of the first line rhymes with the first word of the second line. It’s a fun form to work with. If you’d like to see an example written by the inventor of the memyric, check out this poem: “The Roll”.
Now for your reading pleasure, I give you this *modified* memyric, written for Poefusion’s Tuesday Title Prompt, which this week is “Salty Moon”. I did not completely follow the rules for the memyric (my last word in my first line doesn’t rhyme with my first word of my second line), but I experimented with some internal rhyme instead. Enjoy.
-Nicole
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Salty moon in June
overhead -
saturated, not crisp, clean. It
wilts instead
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