An Afterthought: Unprocessed Question

Another poetry form is known as “The Brace Octave” which has eight line stanza with a set rhyme scheme. The end rhymes are abbaabba or abbacddc.

Like a train chugging, his drab body appears

He is carrying papers and seems to have news

Interesting how his countenance concealed any views

Even the revealing gestures were lost to his peers

But we listened to him amidst the rowdy jeers

While he spoke, he seemed to mind his Ps and Qs

Though not as fluent, he ploughed without cues

So what makes him clever as he disappears? 

The Proclamation of the Hills

On 20^th February, we celebrated the World Day of Social Justice. Social Justice has been a running theme in this blog. Though late, again, all is not lost. My conscience will now rest after writing a poem about the day.

This poem takes a poetry form known as “the Bob and Wheel”. It consists of 2 separate but related stanzas. The second stanza has the first line termed the ‘Bob’, with the next four lines termed the ‘Wheels’. The ‘Bob’ rhymes with the second and fourth ‘Wheels’. The other two wheels rhyme with each other.

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Let this Proclamation of Our Common Intents

reveal our Mutual Accord to the service of man

to remind us of our chequered histories of tyrannies

that led to early deaths and perpetual human want

which, if we could foresee, early enough in time

                                                       could have prevented the loss we bear

                                                       on our visages, for us the savages

                                                       yet, such a past to examine we dare

                                                       though they suppurate under bandages

                                                       the scar of history we all share