The Pearlcon
• A three free style stanza form
• Stanza one: serves as an orientation [2 – 3 lines]
• Stanza two: poses a question related to the orientation [1 – 2 lines]
• Stanza three: provides an answer in question form with emphasis on a positive outcome [principle or thought; spiritual or non-spiritual] [3 – 4 lines]
• Important:
o the poem must relate nature to the human condition or vice versa
o each stanza must link nature with human nature / condition
o Stanza two and three must portray the human condition within imagery of nature and the final stanza must depict the opposite of nature relating it to a positive outcome [principle of healing]
Example:
Sundown on Smiles
… and within the dusk of nightfall,
twilight seems to weave a collage of despair.
Why then that when the sun fades
smiles enter into sundown?
Is there not the knowing
that within the composition of dawn
Hope has always been there?
FransB
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16 lines, 14 comments, on May 13 1:10 PM. In Life
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