Former Performer: A Butterfly Verse*

Former Performer: A Butterfly Verse*

Old man
with ebullience,
lives beneath rusty lamp,
beside rubbish, stinky trash dump.
Sudden
epiphany, with eloquence
he sings ethereally,
‘fore ephemeral
voice fades.

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In response to Napowrimo Day 24. (yes, I’m catching up! :D)

 

Today I challenge you to write a “mix-and-match” poem in which you mingle fancy vocabulary with distinctly un-fancy words. First, spend five minutes writing a list of overly poetic words – words that you think just sound too high-flown to really be used by anyone in everyday speech.

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*Butterfly Verse

Butterflies are shape poems. I am embarrassed to admit I found a few links to different Butterfly verse forms but when I went back to look more closely I keep getting an error. So although there is a Butterfly Septet and a Butterfly Kimo somewhere out there, right now I can’t give you any details. I was able to find a different site for the Butterfly Cinquain however. Here it is:

• Butterfly Cinquain isn’t a cinquain at all:it is a nonostich (9 lines)and uses the syllable count of the Crapsey Cinquain and then reverses it, therefore the misnomer.
• The Butterfly Cinquain is:
  • 9 line poem.
  • syllabic, 2-4-6-8-2-8-6-4-2 syllables per line.
  • unrhymed.

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Read more of my Napowrimo 2016 poems here!