The next poem is both a description of my walk to school and an experiment in form. The verses are each in the form of a Fib which is syllable counting poem. The usual form is a poem of six lines with syllable count 1/1/2/3/5/8. This is called the Fibonacci sequence - a numerical sequence where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones.
Mine isn't quite in this form as I only have one one-syllabled line at the start.
From Here To There
Like
Alice
I fall down
a deep dark tunnel
and into a strange wonderland.
Street
vendors
with strange fruits
stare at my face's
unfamiliar symmetry.
Steps
lead up
and over
and into the park:
market traders lay out their stalls.
Slow
dancers,
quick, quick, slow,
throughout the morning:
pedestrians weave between them.
Swords
shimmer
in bright arcs,
above and around
synchronised morning warriors.
School
awaits
my coming,
anticipates me
with a thousand shrieking hellos.
William Labov, RIP.
6 hours ago
