She Only Had Herself
A Diminishing Verse Poem
Wishes were for Genies to grant
For now, she could only rant
Everything seemed too big for an ant
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Her brain ran out of space
Her problems made her pace
To calm her mind, she needed to ace
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She was fidgety as she sat on the chair
Lost her marbles, wanted to yank out her hair
Then surmised she needed some air
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Going outdoors was overwhelming to start
So instead she would bake a tart
On it, she would design some art
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She invited her best friend over for a chat
Baked the tart after putting on her chef's hat
Her design on it was pulchritudinous to look at
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She put the piquant tart on a plate
Her friend didn't show up, it was getting late
In the end, alone she ate
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The Diminishing Verse Poem is commonly written in tercets (three lines in each stanza)
The last word of each line gradually “diminishes” from one line to the next, usually by removing one or two letters from the beginning of the word.
An example of this would be the transition from “smart” to “mart” to “art”.
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Dharrsheena Raja Segarran
My mental health decline brought along a lot of Darkness and I embraced it. This Darkness flows out in the form of Horror Stories and Dark Poetry 🖤
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Comments (110)
I feel bad for Genies :-)
Smashing words and how I feel sometimes, ty xx
Love Your creativity 💗
You are good at what you do. Keep it up🤗
The format is lovely. The story sad and relatable. Your poetry always speaks to me with its message
Such a cool form applied to great effect- I like the through-line in the poem
I love the pacing and rhythmic feel of this one, as soon as I opened it I remembered what it was all about still had to give it a second read! 🩵
Wow, didn't know about tercets - good read.
Interesting art, thanks for sharing this work of art 🎭👏🏾
Very heart touching
Very good!! Thank you for sharing 😊💕
This is fun to read. I enjoyed every word.
This piece of writing is simply brilliant. I liked it a lot.
Dhar ~ Such Tart-Art ~ you Mart ~ - Fun - Jay
This was great, I loved the rhyming. Poor girl, at least she could enjoy her tart, I guess. Good poem!
This is really clever and beautiful. And congratulations 🤍
What a unique format, this is so creative! Excellent poem!!
It might have been a diminishing verse poem, but it's increasing my appreciation for poems! lol, sorry about that! Great job! 💕
Beautiful one, friend! I had never seen a diminishing verse poem, and loved learning something here as well!❤
Well written and so interesting ❤️❤️
Dharrsheena, you are magical. such a sad end but i loved every word of it...as it diminished...
Very creative and imaginative.
Woah! Nice! I have never even heard of a diminishing verse poem! Well done!
Darrsheena, this is outstanding! I’ve never come across a diminishing verse poem, and thank you for the explanation. I definitely need to give this style a go! I love how you unfolded a whole story within this poem and expressed so many emotions 💕🙂
I've never seen one done this well!! Beautiful poem!