Poetic Form 14: Diminishing Verse

Fading

Between them, a conflicted strain

built over time. Life traveling straight like a train.

Both feeling stuck in emotion’s rain,

while wanting to see the Jura Mountains as the river, Ain.

He wanted to tell her of the songs he writes.

She needed to know his words completed her heart’s rites.

Together at the table they lived as lonely-ites.

Silently, they wonder how love became a tangled knot.

Neither one brave enough to bridge what they know not

of. Instead they spend each day feeling love lose its...

Poetic Form #14: Diminishing Verse

Diminishing verse has one rule, remove the first letter of end word from the previous line. A poet can remove a sound, too. (I took the idea of diminishing a step further in the poem with the verses.)