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Week 39 Pendulum
Taking Charge
Order allows serenity
supporting sanity
and clarity.
Witty
writing
extols lighting
a fire to the mishmash,
with command rising from the ash.
~~Judi Van Gorder
Verse Form: The Pendulum is an invented verse form that features graduated line lengths. It was created by Etta J Murphy and was first published in Calkins, Haiku Highlights (July-August 1970) and found in Pathways for the Poet by Viola Berg. The elements of the Pendulum are:
1. a poem in 8 lines, an octastich.
2. syllabic, 8-6-4-2-2-4-6-8 syllables per line.
3. rhymed, rhyme scheme aabbccdd.
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