It's Alive!

On May 7, 2005, I created a new form of poetry, the Modicum. The form consists of five lines. The first containing three syllables; the second, third, and fourth lines all contain four; and the last line ends much like it began, with three syllables. The title is formed by two words, the first word of the poem, and another significant word in the poem, but not the second word. And it must express a complete thought.

Here are but a few examples, the first ones I wrote earlier this year:



endless touch


endless night
touch me again
caress my face
softer she does
in my dreams

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empty kiss


empty bed
hold my body
refresh my mind
so morning sun
can kiss me

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Warm Friends


Warm coffee
cup, cool black desk
notebooks, journals,
pens, my silent
office friends.

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fleeting shadows


fleeting mist
saturate me
replenishing
my dry shadow’s
man-like form

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