Hello, beautiful readers! Over at dVerse-Poets Pub, Lisa brings us dVerse's Poetics Tuesday - Busted! She challenged us to create a sculpture of ourselves or to write an ekphrastic poem based one of the busts she included in her post. As I am not artistically creative, I chose to write a poem about one of the busts in her post.
I decided to write a Shadorma, which is a six-line stanza with a syllabic pattern of 3-5-3-3-7-5.
("Last Man (Guardian of Forbidden Books)" by Leonid Lerman)
How the Mighty Fall
his hubris
needed attention
a bust made
to praise him
until people saw the truth
now, a paperweight
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Your shadorma made me smile, Yvette. The sculptor had a sense of humour, or was it revenge?
ReplyDeleteMaybe both! Lol! Thanks for stopping by, Kim! :-)
DeleteYvette, I love the whole shadorma, but your last line had me laughing. I wonder what will be left to memorialize a certain cheeto? Maybe a cheeto set in acrylic?
ReplyDeletePerhaps nothing but an asterisk next to a name with a note that says, "See archives." Thanks for visiting, Lisa! :-)
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ReplyDeleteI am enjoying your Shadorma. It sounds like a bit of truth telling. How the mighty have fallen.
Shalom shalom
Thank you, Pat! I appreciate your visit. :-)
DeleteNice one, Yvette!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dwight! I appreciate you visiting. :-)
DeleteReally, very much liked this...fits many things, including very important ones.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ain! I wanted it to make it vague enough to fit many situations. I appreciate you visiting. :-)
DeleteWOW! Clever, wonderfully unique, short and sweet!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Helen! I appreciate you stopping by. :-)
DeleteYvette, I feel like this shadorma quietly devastates. The final line hits with perfect weight—brilliantly spare and sharp.
ReplyDeleteMuch love,
David
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Thank you, David! I appreciate you stopping by. :-)
DeleteCant wait until he becomes a paper weight. Excellent use of the Shadorma form.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Rall! I appreciate your visit. :-)
DeleteI love the ending on this, Yvette!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sara! I appreciate you stopping by. :-)
Deletean excellent use of the form ~
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind words! :-)
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