Ride the Wave
©April 9th, 2017
By Vijaya Sundaram
The past does not live here
The future interferes
This place is for the present
Free yourself as you fall
The sea is for us all
Your splash is phosphorescent.
Count every glowing wave
And ride it to your grave
You are not convalescent.
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NOTE: I used the Balassi Stanza for my nine-line poem, and it goes thus:
Rhyme scheme: a. a. d. b. b. d. c..c. d
Syllable count: 6. 6. 7. 6. 6. 7. 6. 6. 7.
Our NaPoWriMo Day 9 prompt was this:
Because today is the ninth day of NaPoWriMo, I’d like to challenge you to write a nine-line poem. Although the fourteen-line sonnet is often considered the “baseline” form of verse in English, Sir Edmund Spenser wrote The Faerie Queene using a nine-line form of his own devising, and poetry in other languages (French, most particularly) has always taken advantage of nine-line forms. You can find information of various ways of organizing rhyme schemes, meters, etcetera for nine-line works here. And of course, you can always eschew such conventions entirely, and opt to be a free-verse nine-line poet.