Challenge
Create an "Enumerative Poem".
Enumerative poem is a poem of 7 lines, 10 syllables per line with a progressive rhyming scheme beginning with the second syllable of the first line to the tenth syllable of the seventh line.
Aa - - - - - - - -
Aa bb- - - - - -
- - bb cc - - - -
- - - - cc dd - -
- - - - - - dd ee
- - - - - - - - ee
If you have never heard of this form, it's because it didn't exist until now. Here's to hoping it exists tomorrow.
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Genesis
Sever the stream of liars snaring babes,
never knowing their end began at birth.
What if, growing creates lifelong knowledge
that will deny, their fates until that day
that breath delays return and fills the lung,
now dry. We hope for more than this to come.