Madness

POETRY FORM WEEK

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MADNESS

(A Zeno)

I see a shadow on the wall

I cannot move

I lie

Still.

The shadow moves

Slowly

Till

It reaches me

Will it

Kill?

Note:

 A Zeno is a poem of ten lines with the syllable count 8/4/2/1/4/2/1/4/2/1

and

A rhyming scheme of a/b/c/d/e/f/d/g/h/d

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DOMINOES

(Written this time last year! See Syria looking wary!)

The Middle East is in the throes

Of toppling all the dominoes.

Some have gone and some are going,

Some reject the overthrowing.

Some potentates maintain their power

Though looking shakier by the hour.

Some put a gag on cyberspace

And subjects call that a disgrace.

Some leaders say that they'll allow

Greater fredom, but don't say how.

They omit the details, leaving out

Important things that are in doubt.

How will it end? In smiles or tears?

Change! After a thousand years!

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