Le Voyage Magnifique

My Brother John

After nine-eleven tragedy,
my brother John felt the need to serve,
so he enlisted in Marines
and went off to fight in combat--
so brave!

Over there, he met his destiny--
a fate he surely did not deserve,
when bomb blew him to smithereens.
So, now we gather with Mom at
his grave.

Notes on the Brady's Touch form of poetry ▶︎

The Brady's Touch, devised by Maryann Merriweather-Travis, is a ten-line poem broken into two quintains (five-line stanzas). Each stanza has a line structure of 9, 9, 8, 8, 2, and a rhyme scheme of abxcd, where x is unrhymed, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/2192-forms-unique-to-poetry-styles/#brady...

https://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/bradys-touch/

https://kiwinana.blogtown.co.nz/2019/04/05/my-bradys-touch-poem-challenging-poet...