Poetic Form 27: Descort

Fatherhood

A father carries the weight 

    of his children’s 

hearts. 

Watches life 

    flow behind spectacles 

as hands, bones, and youth fade to memories. 

There comes a time when a father holds open the door 

    to his fear; 

    a world he has no control of. 

Each child passing him as they seek independence.

His heart breaking every minute they are gone. 

Poetic Form #27: Descort

The main rule for the descort form is that each line needs to be different
 from every other line in the poem. A descort poem has different line lengths, 
meters, avoids rhyming with other lines, no refrains, and that goes for the 
stanzas, too.