Just Read
(A 12-line Exhortation)
Just read!
The world's revealed within each page,
released to those of any age.
A way to let the mind engage
its learning need
that will succeed
to teach things never known before.
The books will leave you seeking more.
Within the magic corridor
of open tomes
excitement roams.
Just read!
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Author Notes
This is a sculpture that I came across at an upscale apartment complex in Woodbury, Minnesota. Woodbury is a suburb of St. Paul, Mn.
This poem is a 12-Line Exhortation.
A 12 Line Exhortation is a format this author created. I researched poetry types with 12 Lines to see what they are called. I found a group of poems called 12 Lines. But they are basically unstructured. I wanted some specific structure. I wanted a poem with 3 consecutive lines of rhyme, that played off 8/4/2 syllable counts and was positive in spirit. So I created this format and called it 12 Line Exhortation. Here are the rules. A 12 Line Exhortation is a poem with 12 lines, starting and ending with a 2 syllable line that caries an exhortation, like; Get up!, Move on! Go jump! The whole syllable structure is;
2/8/8/8/4/4/8/8/8/4/4/2.
There is also a fixed rhyme scheme of:
AbbbaacccddA, where the capital letters are repeated lines.
This photograph was taken by the author himself.
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