Keep Them Separated

Be aware consciously, religiously, conscientiously:
Church distinct, separate, unconnected, unintegrated
State remains freestanding, unencumbered perpetuation.

Note: I am currently writing a poem a day (See the writing forum "Circadian Addiction") using a different poetic form for each one. I'm trying to use those forms I have rarely tried. I wrote one of these here in this thread but decided to stretch this one to FIVE syllables just for fun.

Thanks, writer, for posting this form!

Here's a new one I just wrote in Circadian Addiction foum:

Rhopalic Verse Rhymed

A teenage fantasy misremembered,
He often recounted…re-offender;
Just dreaming rendezvous anticipated,
But really nevermore consummated.

Daniel,

That's a good thng...right?

The Poet's Garret is absolutely wonderful. I've been reading about some new forms. I think my next CA round will be predominately new forms. Like I have here, I'll probably post first efforts in this form. Who knows? It might strike a chord in someone else.

Wayne

This was taken from The Poets Garret.<----Here's a link.

Rhopalic Verse

Rhopalic Verse is a very deceptive form that at first appears simple but in fact it requires a lot of hard work to accomplish a satisfactory piece. The rules are simple: With each line the first word is monosyllabic, the second word has two syllables, the third three syllables and so on. 

Turco in his Book of Forms gives the following example: 

Come lover, hastily violently
And gather everything gatherable. 

Here's my first effort:

BEWARE THE POLITICIAN

Take measure carefully, notwithstanding,
the ruler’s tendency 
to extract misguided understanding
from voter’s misapplied dependency.

The form doesn't require any rhyme.  I just thought it would be fun to try.

Hope some others try this.

~ writer