The story is told that a poet was scribbling fast and wrote the word Abracadabra accidentally forgetting the Rs.  I don’t know that I’ve seen any proof of this.  But, it’s a nice enough story and I’m sticking to it.   Tonight’s workshop featured this form and this and another poem are the two that I wrote to practice the format.

To write the form, the method is:

• A 9 line poem
• Line-length and metrics at the discretion of the poet
• Rhyme pattern is minus the “r”s. – abacadaba

Poem 1 from this is:

A Magic Nine
by Michael Romani

Oh, that I might do this well
As to write of magic this night
If only I find the words to tell
What a tell my tale would tell
But, alas it seems that until
I find something worthy to say
It might be all just as well
That I dare not under the moon light
Even as your eyes cast their spell

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