one afternoon
a day she ponders life’s array
a beam of thought across her face
she knows her minds a whirling race
a firing blast of neurons spray
a spark in flow with thoughts that blow
her images and words at play
a dance of thought, a minds embrace
a day she ponders life’s array.
Octain is a form conceived by Luke Rapture Elk. The rules are as follows: 8 lines -two tercets and a couplet, 8 syllables per line with the first line repeated (as much as possible) as the last. Meter is iambic or trochaic tetrameter and a rhyming scheme of A-b-b; a-c/c-a; b-A
Union
Our Unions are under attack
some Midwest wings of Right assail
Ms Johnson’s teaching job is frail
they want to vote on cuts to smack
the Left all hide, the time to bide
no vote until they all come back
people this poem’s not a tale
Our Unions are under attack.
