*Pathogenic Poetry
*A collaboration with Annie from What the Woman Wrote
Thank you Annie for teaching me a new form, a Nove Otto. It is a nine-lined poem with 8 syllables per line. The rhyme scheme is as follows: aacbbcddc. Since that wasn’t enough of a challenge, we did a second Nove Otto and reversed the rhyme scheme.
‘Cause we’re cool like that. 😉
Pathogenic Poetry
It’s contagious that poetry
Like virus, taking over me
Its bite is quite Insidious
Taking root deep inside the heart
Send pathogens to pick apart
Those little darn things, devious
Make me grab pens and start scribbling
Create something out of nothing
Words that must be impervious!
Strings of words, though less murderous
Yet I arrange those bloody things
Like specks of dust, of how they cling
Those damned things are imperious!
Giving me fevers, off the chart!
As their armies tear me apart!
Damn virus! I’m delirious!
My pen races to complete thee
so contagious, that poetry
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An interesting and so RELATABLE piece! 😀
Thank you, we had way too much fun with this
Bravo–so well done!!
Thank you! We had way too much fun with these collabs 🙂
I could feel it! 🙂
😀 I’m glad
🙂
Awesome wordsmithing! Rock on team 1!
Thank you! Who’s team 2 ? 😉
I totally enjoyed reading this out and counting the rolling syllables. That was fun 🙂
Beautiful poetic virus. I think it should keep you enthralled so that you can keep waxing lyrical words. Lovely job
Thank you Jackie 🙂
Good work. Both of you. Oh, and my Badassery post is up wheneveryou have a moment. https://thelonelyauthorblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/badassery/
Thank you for both the comment and the link.
No problem. You have a wonderful weekend. And thank you for all of your wonderful posts. They were a pleasure to read.
Thank you for reading them. I’m hopping over to read yours add catch up on what everyone’s been posting while I was woking
Thanks
You’re welcome 🙂
Thank you!
I must try this with my Lord of the Pen. Thanks Mel and Annie 🙂
I was hoping you two would take this on! Thank you!
Yes we will. We are working on a series right now
Yay! 🙂
Yes, we’re cool like that 🙂 I enjoyed writing this with you – I am new to the form too! 🙂
really? You seemed like an expert the way you kept our rhymes on track. I kept mixing up which rhyme with what 😉
😀 Remember when we talked about rules some time ago? I’m a stickler for them. (That’s why I am in this line of business I am in now) You’d said you’d keep looking for a loophole to break or go around them and I’d said I’d be the one keeping you (us) on track. Well, there you go 🙂 🙂
I recall that convo and I think that’s why we write so well together! we have that Yin/Yang thang going on 🙂
Yes we do 🙂
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