New assignment!
Write a poem with syllables descending as it goes on, then change the direction of the poem (happy to sad, dismal to triumphant, etc) and end with the same number of syllables in the last line as was in the first! Here is my example:
She sits in shadows shifting; twilight 9
Has come and gone-slowly sinking 8
In despair, dead in moonlight 7
Swirls of suns setting 6
Her hope in highlights- 5
Fortes forgetting 4
Every light 3
Looking. 2
Might, 1
Fleeting. 2
Yet the knight, 3
He is coming 4
She coils-contrite 5
Sundered soul stopped trusting 6
One who’d tarry to incite 7
Anguish, and arrive-abounding 8
Still with love lasting-this her birthright. 9
She sits in shadows shifting; twilight 9
Has come and gone-slowly sinking 8
In despair, dead in moonlight 7
Swirls of suns setting 6
Her hope in highlights- 5
Fortes forgetting 4
Every light 3
Looking. 2
Might, 1
Fleeting. 2
Yet the knight, 3
He is coming 4
She coils-contrite 5
Sundered soul stopped trusting 6
One who’d tarry to incite 7
Anguish, and arrive-abounding 8
Still with love lasting-this her birthright. 9