Poetic Form 37: Dizain

The Beat Down

I walk down a street I know well. Nervous 

because the dangers have become too real.

Love and honor are now just lip service.

I blink, I am surrounded. “Here’s the deal.”

the mob says. All I feel is someone’s heel

connect to the back of my knee. I fall.

Concrete scraping my cheek. One against all.

In the fetal position I return.

Kicks and blows fall, I am now a rag doll.

Bones match a heart broken. Why is love spurned?

Poetic Form #37: Dizain

A dizain poem is one 10-line stanza, with 10 syllables per line and the following
ababbccdcd rhyme scheme.

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.