Leilya Pitre of Louisiana is our host at http://www.ethicalela.com today for our fifth day of #Verselove. You can read her poem here, along with the poem and comments of others. She inspires us to write a date night poem (about a memorable date or a standing date) using sevenlings. To write a sevenling, here is the form:
- Think about two contrasting ideas, concepts, people, or events (e.g., good/evil, humor/satire, war/peace, light/darkness, optimist/pessimist, flowers/weeds, etc.)
- Write a three-line stanza containing three things about the first one (description or explanation)
- Write another three-line stanza containing three other things about the second word. You may oppose the first stanza to the second or try to find some commonalities.
- The final line should present a kind of a punchline, a surprise, or an unusual, even oxymoronic conclusion.
- Add a title.
Here is my Sevenling: The Swing.
The Swing
I said NO to a third date.
NO WAY. NEVER AGAIN.
I was running scared, hurt.
But you waited.
You asked again:
Let's go to the park, sit in the swing.
And God winked on us forever.
Common Threads 