Weekly Poetry Challenge Five and Six

Week 15 Eintou

Prompt/Week # 15

My life Eintou
I met my fate
It began when we met
You swept into my world that date
You mesmerized my soul
I knew it then
That’s life

Form: Eintou


The Eintou is a septet—a stanza of seven lines.
In these lines, there is a cycle, a flow of syllables or words that rises and ebbs.

It is an African American poetry form consisting of seven lines, totaling 32 syllables or words. The Eintou developed as a means for African American poetic forms to take their place in the forefront of American poetry.

The 2-4-6-8-6-4-2 structure of the Eintou is crucial to African-American philosophy.
Life is a cycle. Everything returns to that from which it originates.