As most of you know, I am a contributing poet to Writers Digest. I say "contributing." I mean that I post a poem every so often on Robert Brewer's blog. It's fun. This week, we had a challenge. We were to write a rispetto. As I was informed (because I had never heard of this form before), it is a poem with two different forms. The first form is comprised of two quatrains, each with iambic tetrameter. The other form is a hendecasyllabic (eight syllables) 8-line stanza. Here's my attempt at the second form.
the falling dead leaves of the oak in the back yard.
an eyesore in the eyesore of the plastic shed.
to admit that he might finally be stark mad.
a calmer soul and a gently wrinkled humor.
good head start. Now, tomorrow we rebuild the shed.