Year of Writing 109. 19/30

4/19/12

I fall in and out of love with rigid form poetry.  Right now I love it, and the freedom that it allows within the constraints.  Here is a Welsh form of poetry called an englyn cyrch.  Look here: http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/celtic2.html#eng.  In short, it has four seven-syllable lines with lines 1,2, and 4 rhyming.  Line 3 rhymes with an internal segment of line 4.

Englyn Cyrch for E. 14th.

Concrete and metal abide
plants and trees are pushed aside
smelted chain link at the core
where the poor people reside