Etheree, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Options

[JustDaniel]

Etheree [eh-thuh-ray] consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables. It is like an inverted nonet with an extra line.

Etheree may also be reversed (inverted) and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. When writing multiple stanzas, the pattern of the original (whether standard or inverted) generally continues in the subsequent stanzas.

Here are two of mine:


Love
_{ethere it is, or...}


plunge
yourself
in… to love
bottomlessly
and you’ll discover
that it is not baseless
though somewhat ethereal
when action's truly the real thing...
it carries more weight than you can bear;
while there may seem no rhyme, there is reason

_{© MLee Dickens'son 23 Feb 2004
Revised 16 July 2007}



Free Love

Can
someone
demonstrate
that he has love
apart from actions?
He'll not ask one thing
in return for what he gives
but good for the one receiving
though the recipient may hate him
all through the process of being given.

_{© MLee Dickens'son 21 Aug 2007}

This post has been edited by JustDaniel: Jan 12 19, 21:53

[JustDaniel]

The Stealth of Leisure


love

leisure

and your soul

morphs with a thief

who now rides tandem;

he'll cause you to wander

away from well-chosen steps

and compel you to charge items

laughing at you from those online sites

until they foreclose on your home mortgage


© MLee Dickens'son 2013

from Challenge words, in order: love, leisure, soul, morph, tandem, wander, step, compel, charge, home