A Descort poem
a simple misstep causes me to stum- ble fore- wards, as my water is e- jected up in- to the air; I watch helplessly, clutching my glass so that it won't shatter up- on the flooring \\ breathe \\ in~out \\ appreciate this moment's magic; liquid's defiance of gravity captures my imagination ~ reflects
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.
‘What do you see’ Prompt #140
For Sadje’s weekly #WDYS prompt, she offered the photo below as inspiration for writers to produce art.
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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An excellent execution of this curious (totally unknown-to-me) form. You did good David🤗
💙 🧡 Karima 💙 🧡
Creating a stumble with word breaks and the magic of “floating” water. Creative!
💚 ❤️ Michele 💚 ❤️
you conquered both the form and the prompt and stopped the shattering 👏👏👏
✨️🙏🏻✨️ Cindy ✨️🙏🏻✨️
💖💖👏👏👏🌞🌹
This style is so cool. You did a good job with it.
💗 Molly 💗
Pretty cool. Both the style of poetry and your poem!
💚 Annette 💚 ~ thanks!
Absolutely superb 👏✍
❤ ❤ D. A. ❤ ❤ ~ that's very kind – thank you!
Sincerely,
David
You are most deservedly welcome 💖💫
Just so perfect what you did with the backslashes to differentiate between the lines. That innocent moment – the stumble – is both superb and hilarious to introduce the topic defiance or gravity…👏😄.
Glorious photography and a lovely handling of the subject in poetry.
💓 🤍 Abi, thank you 🤍 💓
A good fall can be so creative. Haha! Nice one, David.
💓🙏 Terveen 🙏💓
How is it that your water is suspended but my water rushes to cling to me?? And that refreshing shower is rarely appreciated because I’m on my way out the door. Of course it wouldn’t be a problem if I could remember to close the lid to my water bottle!
😄 Muri 😄
Great take on the prompt.
🤍🙏🏻🤍 Bridget 🤍🙏🏻🤍
Brilliant! Just Brilliant!!!
🧸 Suzette 🧸 ~ thanks so much!
A pleasure 😊
Very well written David. A new and interesting form of poetry. Thanks for joining in
💛 Sadje 💛 ~ thanks for a fun prompt, as always!
You’re welcome
Excellent response to the prompt David! 👏👏😁😁 I think the poetic style you chose worked for this particular image! 👍👍👌👌
I thought so too, ❤ Ken! ❤
Thanks so much.
You’re very welcome sir! 😁🙏 Just about to post up my response to same prompt.
💪 Ken 💪