Septoling is a brand new form suggested in Norm Pollack's recent postings on his site. Though he had not named it during his experimenting with the concept, I thought I should capture it with that designation. He has agreed.
Like a
septolet, it has seven lines, but the similarity ends there. The poem has two stanzas with a syllable count of 7-5-3-1 / 5-7-
a single -ing word, such that the poem looks like this:
Single -ing word
xxxxxxx
xxxxx
xxx
x
xxxxx
xxxxxxx
single -ing word
The last single word of the poem becomes the Title
...and it is a gerund (present participle) of any number of syllables.
Norm's first posts in this form:
hibernating
sleep within the folds of air
but do not disturb
the flow of
dreams
i have memories
imbedded with DNA
hibernating
presaging
the winds of our history
cannot blow away
conscience like
sand
civilizations
tell us that "is" becomes "was"
presaging
© Norman S. Pollack
and my own first attempt:
minimalizing
so much wears away with time
but there's more than rhyme
with poets'
terse
appreciation
honestly grows when you stop
minimalizing
© MLee Dickens'son 23 July 2007