Apple-spent (A Compound Word Verse)

On By dorahakIn Poems

An inch the moon moved, me eyeing
through sleepless lids I lay dying:
apple-fed.

Dim my sight, breath weakening
death’s poison ever strengthening:
apple-cursed.

Whispered prayers, hurried words of flesh
plead soul’s deliverance afresh:
apple-damned.

Darkness now floods the mind distraught
I would, I could, but I cannot:
apple-bent.

God’s Son whose flesh my guilt impaled
On cross for me o’er death prevailed:
apple-freed.

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Grace at dVerse challenges us today to write a Compound Word Verse, an unfamiliar form to most ous I daresay. She writes: "The Compound Word Verse is a poetry form invented by Margaret R. Smith that consists of five 3-line stanzas, for a total of 15 lines. The last line of each stanza ends in a compound word and these compound words share a common stem word which is taken from the title. (In the first example below the stem word is “moon” from the title “Moonlighting”; the compound words related to the title are moondust, moonbeams, moonsongs, etc.)

The Compound Word Verse (3 lines) has a set rhyme scheme and meter as follows:

Rhyme Scheme: a,a,b
Syllable/Meter: 8, 8, 3

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32 thoughts on “Apple-spent (A Compound Word Verse)”

    1. Thank you, Grace, for your generous comments and also the introduction to a great verse form. It was a lot of fun to try out. As for apple, well, apples just seems to go with autumn!

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    1. It may be ill-deserved, Kerfe. I’ve heard scholars suggest it may be the pomegranate that is intended given the geographical context. Which I could readily accept as I love me some apple pie!!!

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