Spring Days
©April 28th, 2017
By Vijaya Sundaram
Sunny and gold
The light unfolds
Like lotus flowers
In morning hours.
Damp with dew,
The days are new,
And sunlight spills
While I stand still.
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Today’s prompt was strangely difficult for me, because both the poems I came up with before this one above were either didactic or trite, and I hated both. Finally, I settled on this. Dipodic meter is HARD!
Here’s the prompt:
Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem using Skeltonic verse. Don’t worry, there are no skeletons involved. Rather, Skeltonic verse gets its name from John Skelton, a fifteenth-century English poet who pioneered the use of short stanzas with irregular meter, but two strong stresses per line (otherwise know as “dipodic” or “two-footed” verse). The lines rhyme, but there’s not a rhyme scheme per se. The poet simply rhymes against one word until he or she gets bored and moves on to another. Here is a good explainer of the form, from which I have borrowed this excellent example: