~ The Poet's Place Cafe~

The San Hsien is a decastich (ten-line poem) contrived by Jessamine Fishback and named after a three-string Chinese lute. The structure consists of ten lines written in iambic dimeter (four syllables) with a rhyme scheme of ABbaccabBA, where the upper case letters represent repeated lines.


I Am
By Lisa Noe

A I am the boss
B I like to write
b I’m out of sight
a And that’s because
c I try so hard
c This job I guard
a I have no loss
b it’s dynamite
B I shine the light
A for just this cause.