Waltz Wave

It’s the first Friday of the month, and you know what that means . . . Poetry!

I’ve been in a poetical frame of mind lately, and despite having a four inch wide, three ring binder full of poems I’ve written in the past, I decided to go for something new. So I looked in my files for a form I attempted but never finished, and picked one at random. And while I was doing the research for that form, I stumbled across this one. ;-)

The Waltz Wave got its name in honour of Leo Waltz, web manager of Sol Magazine, which is a great resource for discovering new poetry forms.

This poem is written in a single stanza. It has 19 lines with an intriguing syllable pattern that gives it a total of 38 syllables. Not a lot of syllables for a 19 line poem, is it?

Syllable Count: 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1

The increase/decrease of the lines give this poem its wave effect. And because waves tend to be soothing, your subject matter should be as well. Your poem should also have a title.

Note: It’s okay to split a word with more than one syllable between lines to fit the pattern if you need to.

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Assignation

soft
moonlight
glows
upon
the water
shushing
back
and forth
along the
darkened shoreline
timeless and
patient
back
and forth
waiting for
the two
to
meet in
love