Delib, or: ately awkward

A quadrille (in descort form)

Static thinking
falls short when writing a descort;
it is deliberately awkward,
as every single line must differ from every
other line in length, 
meter, 
and rhyme too,
thereby forcing poets
to be flexible,
or at least write more irregularly than they might prefer.

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Descort poem

The descort differentiates itself from other forms by differentiating its lines from other lines within the poem. That is, the main rule of descort poems is that each line needs to be different from every other line in the poem.

A descort poem has different line lengths, meters, avoids rhyming with other lines, no refrains, and that goes for stanzas as well. In other words, no two lines in a descort should look like each other.

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d’Verse Quadrille #151

The above Descort is my take on today’s d’Verse’s Quadrille challenge.

The Quadrille is simply a poem of 44 words (excluding the title), and it can take any form. This week’s challenge was to use the word “static” in a Quadrille.

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Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

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