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I was critiquing poetry at All Poetry when I came across an invented form poem by A. Nunez Del Rio, I liked the format so much I used it to created a poem of my own.

If is a whimsy octastich poem of two pivit quatrains in ballad rhyme a,b,c,b with beginning and internal anaphora, (repeats) and fixed syllabic meter of 6,4,4,4 each stanza, written in 33 words.

Image by me, silhouette of If.

If If you are to do it, do it with style, make people laugh, make people smile. If you can not do it, do it with tact, make them grimace, make their face crack. By Josehf Lloyd Murchison

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Lin Lane

Date: 5/29/2023 2:12:00 AM

Hello Josehj, and fellow AP poet. Interesting form and your thoughts on 'IF' are very applicable.

Josehf Murchison
Date: 6/8/2023 9:22:00 PM

I finely figured out how to reply to a comment.