Freedom

Rictameter based on hot air ballon image (Pond Poetry Rd 23)

Freedom

Freedom
Calls to us all
Gentle voice insistent
Overcoming the dull sameness
Now huddled together we burst our bonds
Flying apart scattered at last
In joyous solitude
Contemplating
Freedom

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A rictameter is a nine-line syllabic structure. The lines start at two syllables, increases by two to ten in the fifth line, then decreases back down to the same two syllable word as the first line.