jacknife
November 20th, 2008, 04:46 AM
Just something I threw together right now.
Read it like a trochaic hexameter, followed by three trochaic heptameters. Then repeat. Trochaic just means you put the emphasis on every other syllable, beginning with the first (i.e., DUM-dah-DUM-dah-DUM-dah). If you read it otherwise it may not flow with the intended rhythm.
If existence were a
Kind of human being
She would be a sadist
Taking pleasure in my beating
Laughing at the scars which
Are opposed to disappearing
While the blood that drips looks
To renew their flesh-bound being
Yet the blood has dried now,
Losing all its meaning
Time perhaps to cut again; to
Seek a reconvening
As the sadist looks on
Quite content with her own being
Seeing wicked tear drops while I
Sit and take my beating
Read it like a trochaic hexameter, followed by three trochaic heptameters. Then repeat. Trochaic just means you put the emphasis on every other syllable, beginning with the first (i.e., DUM-dah-DUM-dah-DUM-dah). If you read it otherwise it may not flow with the intended rhythm.
If existence were a
Kind of human being
She would be a sadist
Taking pleasure in my beating
Laughing at the scars which
Are opposed to disappearing
While the blood that drips looks
To renew their flesh-bound being
Yet the blood has dried now,
Losing all its meaning
Time perhaps to cut again; to
Seek a reconvening
As the sadist looks on
Quite content with her own being
Seeing wicked tear drops while I
Sit and take my beating