Taking the PPC4 - 52 Weeks of Poetry

Prompt 44 (27th May 2024)

Potty Pendulum

can one eat soup with a chopstick?
pray you're not agnostic?
make up your mind
to find
some clear
way out of here
where poems unaligned
so often serve to blow your mind

The Pendulum is an eight-line poem invented by Etta J Murphy.
The syllabic structure is 8, 6, 4, 2, 2, 4, 6, 8 with a rhyme scheme of a a b b c c d d.