Weekly Poetry Challenge four

NRA Lies Pendulum

NRA Lies Pendulum

NRA continues to Lie
Guns Don’t Kill, people die.
Many gunmen.
Fewer wise men.
Gun ghosts.
Politicians offer prayer
Becoming a gun ghost nightmare.



Poetry Form Week!

PENDULUM


The Pendulum is an eight-line poem invented by Etta J Murphy.
The syllabic structure is 8, 6, 4, 2, 2, 4, 6, 8 with a rhyme scheme of a b b c d d,
as demonstrated in the following example:

From Plow to Sport of Kings
by Tinker

,from plow to Sport of Kings
with strength or speed,
our need.
Beauty,
sense of duty,
magnificent of course,
this is an homage to the horse.