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Rated: E · Poetry · Writing · #2343251

Why not? A poem in Rictameter form, described following the poem.

Writing.
Satisfaction.
Creative achievement.
Meet the challenge. Earn those gift points.
Tap experience, imagination.
Enlist knowledge you gained from school,
or from life, or from dreams.
Express it through
writing.


Rictameter form:
> 9 lines.
> Syllable counts: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2.
> Lines 1 and 9 are identical.
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