.
Years of Tears
tender tears through yearning years
wet long lashes as filtered light flashes
dewy drops phantom fops
as water wets frivolous frets
skin scars starlit stars
with moist mirrored soggy sod
as heart hurts with just desserts
© 2011 Philip N. Carcione
.
.
Author's Notes/Comments:
.
Poetic Form: Alliterisen
The Alliterisen (Complex and Rhyming), a form created by Udit Bhatia,
is a simple seven-lined poem with a specific syllable pattern
and two alliterations per line. For example: Glorious Graves,
and wonderful waves. Alliteration is the succession of similar
consonant sounds. They are not recognized by spelling, but rather by sounds.
The syllable structure for the Complex Alliterisen is as follows:
1st line- x syllables
2nd line- x+2 syllables
3rd line- x-1 syllables
4th line- (x+2)-1 syllables
5th line- x-2 syllables
6th line- (x+2)-2 syllables
7th line- x syllables
which allows for infinite syllable sequences.
Listed below are examples of some easy syllable sequences.
