Nature's Rhythm
Poetry Piątek #26
My feet beat
like morse code - or better
a iambic some-or-other-meter:
rhythm sounding da-DUM
da-Dum-da.
Rhythm is a powerful tool in a poet’s tool box. It helps a lot in making your words resonate with your audience. There’s a lot of theory and rules around rhythm in poetry, obviously dressed up with beautiful terminology such as iambic pantameter. Why does rhythm make poems more attractive? Well, it echoes nature. Many rhythms are mimicking natural beats. A heartbeat, for example. Many of those are regular and repetitive. And if you extract and model that, they become even more regular and repetitive. However, nature tends not to follow models of it. She is her own boss.
While running, I was contemplating the irregularity of the rhythm created by my footsteps, and the rounds I was making (short-long-short-long-half).
Have a good weekend.
PS: I have made the gazebo in the picture above my finish line for my runs here.
PS 2: I just published my second poetry book. This time I’m taking you on a journey through Europe in 27 poems. You can buy the ebook here.
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Inspired by Memory of Holland, the Dutch poem of the century by Hendrik Marsman, I wrote a collection of snapshot poems about Europe. You can buy the ebook over on my buymeacoffee.com page.
