COMPETITION PROMPT
Write a poem in ‘revorto’ form.
A reverto poem uses couplets that alternate between one highly poetic and one very unpoetic line. The form is meant to jar the reader from a sense of poetic beauty to something other.
Gravity
Stars and light kiss the sky, twinkle, wink
An apple falls.
A swooning pair of love- struck dancers
Sorely bored bachelors across the ball
Suave ornate threads, royalty imagined in dress
But a man’s loose pants fall below his _draws_
A starrid adventurer battles a tyrant adversary
But cries wounds to a disheveled apothecary
Spread tall tales on tall teeters of mead and beer
Spread thick syrup tears when conflict appears
Be a human being, beautiful and random
Be a human being, beautiful and random
For the illustrious, things with busts built
Tilt to thread a kilt of when dust spills
Gravity holds us so we can love and be good
But the awkward, funny, human things were held too.
And gravity understood.
