Poetry Collection

Mercury

Mercury- very hot, very fast.

Small planet
Speeding as its habit
Orbiting ‘round the glorious Sun

Three to two, Ever so slowly its axis spun
Three times round the sun it flies for two days done

I am not committing perjury
Its trips are cursory
Mercury


Trois- par- huit is a poetry form containing three stanzas of 3, 3 and 2 lines, or 3, 2, 3 for a total of eight lines. Each line has a specific syllable count- 3,6, 9, 12, 12, 9, 6, and 3.
The rhyme structure AAB BBC CC, where the last line of the poem is the title of the poem and summarizes the meaning of the poem. These poems are to appear center alligned.


June 20, 2011
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