Monday, 25 March 2019

Recycle Please- Etheree

Recycle Please

Blue
sky, green
grass, water
I can drink,clear
to the bottom, No
debris anywhere in
sight. Clean air I can breathe, fresh
pure, pollutant free. Perfectly
protecting mankind, helping us thrive.
We need to stay alive, recycle please



Draft with syllable count 
1
11
111
1111
11111
111111
1111111
11111111
111111111
11111111111

Blue (1)
sky, green (2)
grass, water (3)
I can drink, Clear (4)
to the bottom, No (5)
debris anywhere in (6)
sight. Clean air I can breathe, fresh (7)
pure, pollutant free. Perfectly, (8)
protecting mankind, helping us thrive (9)
We need to stay alive recycle please (10)


Rules:
Created about twenty years ago by an Arkansas poet named Etheree Taylor Armstrong, this titled form, the Etheree, consists of ten lines of unmetered and unrhymed verse, the first line having one syllable, each succeeding line adding a syllable, with the total syllable count being fifty-five.