Luc Bat
(Vietnamese form that uses an alternating 6 beat 8 beat sequence, my example I have written three 8 line stanzas but you can also just carry on with the pattern without breaks)
xxxxxA/xxxxxAxB/xxxxxB/xxxxxBxC/xxxxxC/xxxxxCxD/xxxxxD/xxxxxDxE
“In A Vacuum”
It’s Not A Football Game
Both Sides Are Wrong So Shame On Us
This Binary Focus
In the Land Where Jesus Did Live
Is All Consummative
Many A Fugitive Both Sides
Churning Med Sea Tides
And Propaganda Hides the Truth
Losers, Always Youth
This You’re Told Is Uncouth To Say
As the War Games Play
Heaven Forbid You Display Love
The Bully Will Shove
Online Pile On Above, Watch Out
Rhetoric Has Clout
How Can We Act Without A Glance
In Mirror By Chance
Simply No Remembrance Of Past
Must Make Peace Last
Instead We Just Blast Each Other
Robbing A Mother
All This For Just Another, War…
Shannon Lavelle
Beat Poet, Dissident, Dedicated Husband and Father
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