Daybreak (Double Etheree)

by Mr. Darcy   Apr 23, 2011


A
Chorus
Is brewing.
Feel the latent
Anticipation
As the dawn orchestra
Manoeuvres and warms itself.
Slate drifts away as beaks' prepare
To rejoice the breaking morning wave,
Like a sunburst the crest flares with bird song,

Painting the air with honey harmonies.
Feathered A cappella arrangements
Infuse the heavens with beauty.
Swirling rainbows develop
Into daydreams of light
Blinking, flitting eyes
Fill with plumage.
A Blackbird
Sweetly
Sings.

M. Moran
23.4.11
05.13

Etheree, created about twenty years ago by an Arkansas poet named Etheree Taylor Armstrong, this titled form, the Etheree, consists of ten lines of unmetered and unrhymed verse, the first line having one syllable, each succeeding line adding a syllable, with the total syllable count being fifty-five.This concise form is meant to focus on one idea or subject.

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  • 12 years ago

    by Brittany C

    Well I have to admit you are a better poet then me. This poem was nicely worded and I liked the structure of it. It flowed good from start to end.

    I gave it a 5/5

  • 12 years ago

    by mandy

    Beautiful write, it made me feel celestial.

    Flows off the tongue, sweet, great vocabulary, inspiring. 5/5

    mandy :)

  • 12 years ago

    by rob

    Thanks for the great poem and the education on the format, etc.. good on ya..

  • 13 years ago

    by Kiko

    Michael, you sure done old Etheree Taylor Armstrong proud with this poem. :)

    This type of form is easy to write, but very difficult to write well. But you nailed it. You really kept my interest with your colorful and feathery portrait of daybreak, as each line flowed seamlessly into the next.

    Nice work!!

  • 13 years ago

    by Ingrid

    Michael,

    Sometimes, for a short period of time, we get to see the world through someone else's eyes. I don't mean it in a n intellectual way, but reading it and sensing how the other person feels about life as a whole.

    This is how it went when I read your verse. In spite of all things that happened in your life, your spirit remained unbroken. You are such a beautiful, positive human being an dit shines form your words, how you are in admiration of the wonders that surround us. the reason I can see it this clearly is because we are the same, they did not break me either and nothing ever will..and I know you are the same.

    I am so proud of you, to be your friend:)

    Into daydreams of light
    Blinking, flitting eyes
    Fill with plumage.
    A Blackbird
    Sweetly
    Sings.

    ^^

    Moved to tears, I am:)

    (((hugs)))

    Ingrid xx 5/5

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