Sevenling (melancholy)
melancholy descends like
fog, muting milieux, obscuring
vistas, lengthening shadows
endless days veiled in gray gloom
vexing clock’s incessant ticking…ticking
leaky faucet dripping…dripping
the sun will come out tomorrow…you betcha
~kat
The elements of the Sevenling are:
1. a heptastich, a poem in 7 lines made up of 2 tercets followed by a single line.
2. metered at the discretion of the poet.
3. unrhymed.
4. composed with 3 complimentary images in the first tercet and 3 parallel images in the second tercet. The end line is a juxtaposed summary of the 2 parallels, a sort of “punchline”.
5. the poem should be titled “Sevenling: (first few words of poem).
like mercury colliding... 