Fire
Late after dark city started burning
Unknown looters were running around
The people carried angry fire downtown
Hands up the crowds disappointment is churning.Equal treatment is what they are yearning.
For too long resentment has been on hold!
For too long our stories been untold,
By men who have held power and great means.
Fire set in cities, the torch burns and cleans,
Fire burned injustice it’s our day, behold!©2020 cj holm
This is my first attempt at Decima Poetry. The rhyming pattern of abbaaccddc. Ronovan’s challenge was to use “Fire” in the “a” spot of the pattern. I cheated and used Fire as a topic. Decima poetry is brand new to me even though it is centuries old. (Sometimes it’s good to force a Swedish/German to learn new things. Thank you Ronovan for the stretch!
https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/06/03/decima-poetry-prompt-fire/
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Nice! This is the great thing about this type of poetry, it gives an opportunity to expand on a message, and it does stretch or poetry muscles.
Unfortunately, I’m like Steve Martin in the Jerk, just can’t quite get the rhythm.
I think you did a pretty good job. It took me several challenges before I could get close. You did it in one. Keep joining in…or I will find you…and fill your house with Thirteen Stripe Gophers.
I revised the last section for a better flow. From the examples I’ve read online this type of poetry seem very masculine with emphatic statements. Kinda like two rappers going toe to toe. With Attitude! It it were a love song, it would sound like a Paso Doble.
Yeah, that’s kind of how I look at it. I haven’t emphasied that aspect in the directions so much. I like trying to keep to the tradition but I also feel a desire to pull more poets to th style. Mine have been the masculine kind. Especially the gypsy related ones.
And stop making me look bad using all that culture stuff with the Pase del Diablo stuff.
Fat chance of that. The only culture I have is on sterile glass slide.
I thought you might like to watch the video I found showing a Decima Contest. I do not speak the language, but I don’t believe it matters, the exact words aren’t as important as the rhythm and attitude they convey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXV588lIHm0
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Please visit and see Clarence’s first-ever Décima Poem. He did an incredible job. But then again, he’s been writing poetry for years., and that’s just from my personal knowledge of his participating in the Haiku Challenge. A wonderful, creative curmudgeon you just can’t help but like.
“Creative Curmudgeon” Now that’s true poetic license!!!
I just had to.