The Lovely Bones
I took her leg and snapped it like a twig
Twig like was her truly delicate frame
Frame each of the carefully placed white bones
Bones have that chalky oh so ancient smell
Smell the past for her future could not come
Come my friends together we'll solve the crime
Crime committed one hundred years before
Before we ever knew of DNA
DNA will tell us who the girl was
Was she the only one killed in this way?
Way to many questions to be pondered
Pondered long enough to find the answers
Answers found by powers of deduction
Deduction and keen imagination
Imagination freed her lovely bones.
My new form consist of 15 lines and ten syllables per line. The last word of each line must form the first word of the following line. The poem must maintain coherent thought to be effective. The other twist is that it should make the reader start off by thinking the narrator is sinister.
Because I didn't follow instructions I haven't entered it in the contest. It was suppose to be a rhyming form and only 7 lines. Oops!
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