Stella Armour, UK

 

 

Rictameter Poem*   Peaceful   Peaceful Is the night sky With her shimmering stars As they adorn the soft velvet Cloak of veils in sapphire and indigo Mother moon safely cradles dreams As we sleep in her glow Feeling very Peaceful     Whispers   Whispers Of love echo Hauntingly through my mind When I think of you in my dreams They sing so softly in loves remembrance Enchanting my heart once again But you are gone from me I only hear Whispers     Kissing   Kissing My cheeks, the breeze Made me blush as she passed Me by one pretty spring morning On her way to awaken the flowers She swept their fragrance through my hair Profusions of pink heads Swayed to and fro Kissing     About Rictameter Poems*   A rictameter is a nine line incremental syllable count poetry form. The 1st and last lines are the same with the syllable count as follows: • line 1 - 2 syllables - same as line 9 • line 2 - 4 syllables • line 3 - 6 syllables • line 4 - 8 syllables • line 5 - 10 syllables • line 6 - 8 syllables • line 7 - 6 syllables • line 8 - 4 syllables • line 9 - 2 syllables - same as line 1 (Poetrysoup). Created in the early 1990s by two cousins, Jason D. Wilkins and Richard W. Lunsford, Jr., while engaged in a poetry contest. This contest was the weekly practice of their self-invented order, The Brotherhood of the Amarantos Mystery, which was inspired by the movie Dead Poet's Society. The first examples of the rictameter form to be made public were submissions made by Jason Wilkins to the website www.shadowpoetry.com in 2000 (Wikipedia).