A Minute Poem
With 60 syllables and 60 seconds in a minute, that makes sense!
Here’s my attempt at a Minute Poem:
The Month of November
Recognized days in November
to remember
Day of the dead
Day I was wed
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Thanksgiving will be here too soon
saw the full moon
Thankful for fall
We had a ball
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Native American month now
Please take a bow
We are still here
Miigwech my Dear
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Some poetic forms seem to spring out of nowhere. Such appears to be the case with our most recent poetic form: the minute poem.
The rules are rather simple: 3 quatrains (or 4-line stanzas), 8 syllables in the first line of each stanza, 4 syllables in the remaining lines of each stanza, rhyme scheme: aabb/ccdd/eeff, written in strict iambic meter
So each stanza contains 20 syllables times 3 stanzas equals 60 syllables total. Since there are 60 seconds in a minute, I’m going to go out on a limb and proclaim that’s the origin of the name minute poem. Writers Digest, ROBERT LEE BREWER, SEP 14, 2015
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Published first in Mercury Press
About the Creator
Denise E Lindquist
Retired, working part-time as a Native American culture consultant. I have an MSE, and an ABD. I write on Vocal, and Facebook. Poetry, non-fiction mostly, and working on fiction. Wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
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