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Today’s poetry form is called Descort Poetry. From Brewer,

The descort differentiates itself from other forms by differentiating its lines from other lines within the poem. That is, the main rule of descort poems is that each line needs to be different from every other line in the poem.

A descort poem has different line lengths, meters, avoids rhyming with other lines, no refrains, and that goes for stanzas as well. In other words, no two lines in a descort should look like each other, and the same could be said for each descort.

Note: This is different than free verse, because even free verse may occasionally have similar line lengths and meter. However, descort is very intentional in its variability.

*I found this form, without structure, form, syllable counts, etc quite intimidating.

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The Cliff Edge

my feet hang off the cliff edge
I see sky and land for miles
watching from above, the eagle’s flight
master of wind and currents, about her business, into a dive she goes
survival key

Now to you…wanna try a Descort poem? Share a link in the comments below!

I am on a personal challenge to explore and write in 100+ different poetic forms.  To assist me in this journey is Robert Lee Brewer’s The Complete Guide of Poetic Forms where he gives the form and an example. The Cliff Edge is #32 in this collection I’m calling, very simply, 100+ Poetic Forms.

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