Apr 23, 2017 Elevenie, NaPoWriMo, Original Poetry

Two Elevenies
©April 23, 2017
By Vijaya Sundaram

Complacency
Getting fatter
In government halls
Growing like a cancer:
Metastasis.

Resistance
Fighting back
In city streets
Growing like a chorus:
Solidarity.
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Today’s Day 23 NaPoWriMo 2017 prompt is to write two elevenies.  (I’d never even heard of this poetic form before, and am delighted by it!)  Here’s the prompt:

Our prompt for Day Twenty-Three comes to us from Gloria Gonsalves, who challenges us to write a double elevenie. What’s that? Well, an elevenie is an eleven-word poem of five lines, with each line performing a specific task in the poem. The first line is one word, a noun. The second line is two words that explain what the noun in the first line does, the third line explains where the noun is in three words, the fourth line provides further explanation in four words, and the fifth line concludes with one word that sums up the feeling or result of the first line’s noun being what it is and where it is. There are some good examples in the link above.

A double elevenie would have two stanzas of five lines each, and twenty-two words in all. It might be fun to try to write your double elevenie based on two nouns that are opposites, like sun and moon, or mountain and sea.

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