Excellent A Word Sonnet Little Poems : Rescue by Treischel

Climb a ladder on building to ascend it upward, so firemen can rescue ME. Author Notes Just experimenting with the flexibility of this format. In this one, I tried to structure words to give the impression of a ladder using a long, then short, word arrangement. This is a Word Sonnet. The Word Sonnet is a relatively new variation of the traditional form that was championed by Seymore Mayne, a Canadian poet who teaches at the University of Ottawa. In essence, it is a fourteen line poem, with one word set for each line. Concise and usually visual in effect, this "miniature" version can contain one or more sentences, as the articulation requires. Word Sonnets attempt to be pithy and suggestive poems in their own right. Many draw on the seasons and also aim for a compact resonance that may attract the reader to return to them again and again. The picture is one of the author's.

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