A strong heart beats in well-tuned ears,
Like quick steps on the cobblestone.
Thin pale lips curl detecting fears,
Beware a monster’s feeding zone.
Black bulging eyes examine moves,
While silent screams dance on cold graves,
Red hot blood like sweet velvet wine,
As transfused veins are slaked – divine!
Copyright © April 2012 Norma Martiri
Form: Rispetto
The rispetto is a classic Italian form composed of only eight lines in two quatrains. All lines are written in iambic tetrameter, with a rhyme scheme of abab ccdd. The distinguishing characteristic of this form is the change in rhyme scheme from alternate line rhyming in stanza one to rhyming couplets in stanza two.
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Great Work,Vampires need friends to.
Thanks heaps 🙂
Very nice. Hadn’t met up with rispetto before. Also nice to find a poet who works in rhyme and metre!
Thanks very much! There doesn’t seem to be many of us around these days. Do you write also? Send me you link 🙂
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No, only poems nowadays. Used to write letters to Nigerian conmen. That was fun. Different characters, fake documents.
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Very cool. Love the tone here, the cobblestones is a great example how one word can indeed set a scene. Very nicely done . I think I’ll have to try this form out one day. Thanks
Thanks heaps. It’s great trying out new forms. It really challenges your creativity. Please let me know when you write one. Thanks for stopping by 🙂
It reads very beautifully, and is like dark chocolate. ;] xx
Thanks Catie…dark chocolate eh, I like that 🙂
Oh yuck on drinking blood. Mind you, if I were a vampire, I’d enjoy it huh! 🙂 Thank goodness I’ve never met any.
Nicely written Norma
Lol, thanks, it was written for a prompt. Thanks for stopping by 🙂
Nicely done. I would prefer red wine to the hot blood though. We have just such a one ‘sangre de torro’.
Thanks for your comment. It’s very much appreciated 🙂
Chilling moments well described in beautiful verse. Very nicely done!
Thanks for your encouraging comments. They’re very much appreciated 🙂
Hi, sorry for the delayed response – just having to get food on the table. Nice to see a poem using form and one that has a Gothic feel
Thanks John, glad you liked it 🙂
a sharp perspective,
amazingly written.
Thanks so much 🙂
awesome imagery, beautifully written.
Thanks Kim, very much appreciated 🙂
originally beautiful.
Thanks so much Aya 🙂