19, April 19th, 9 Lines (a Nonet)

Inspiration: A nonet is a nine-line poem. A nonet can be written on any subject and rhyming is optional. The poem starts with a line that has 9 syllables in it. The second line contains 8 syllables, the third line has 7 syllables, and it continues to count down to one syllable in the final line (ninth line).

Guidance: Need an idea for your nonet?

• Search images. Tell a story or describe what’s happening in a nonet.
• About what are you most passionate (e.g., swimming, horses, soccer, gaming)? Describe it or tell a story in the nonet.
• Is there an issue in the world that interests you (e.g., war, poverty, racism, police brutality, politics, immigration, global warming, guns, freedom, refugees, gender)? Capture the issue in a nonet – who, what, where, why.
• Look at the news for an idea. Click here, and whatever is on the front page, write about it (or click around).

A year ago, I decided to write a nonet based on a news article. Unfortunately, a similar incident — the use of chemical weapons in Syria — repeated this same month one year later. Again and again, human rights violations. Again and again, we fail to intervene before lives are lost.

This is the article followed by my nonet: https://newsela.com/articles/syria-chemical-weapon-attack/id/28950/

Sarin gas breathed in or touched cripples
human’s central nervous system.
The dark side of science when
chemicals kill not heal
weaponized by men
to suffocate
our children
for what?
Land?

Want to read some novels in poetry form?  Here is my list for the first half of the month.