Written: February 24, 2025 For Brian Strand Contest
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A lifetime swings good, bad, and back
Toil shows us what we lack.
Brave lessons learned
hard earned,
grasped by
how high we fly,
determined by the will
to work, whatever sweat we spill.
Note: Pendulum is an invented verse form with graduated line lengths. Etta J Murphy created it and it first appeared in Calkins' Haiku Highlights (July-August 1970). The Pendulum is an 8-line poem with a syllable count of 8/6/4/2/2/4/6/8.
Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd.
Categories:
calkins, analogy, character,
Form: Other