How remiss of me, I forgot to post that I attended the Short Form Poetry Workshop this past Tuesday.  The form studied this week is the Rispetto:

How do you write a Rispetto
• 8 lines broken into 2 stanza
• syllabic – hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) lines or lines between 8 and 12 syllables
• or iambic tetrameter (4 measures)
• Rhyme scheme ababccdd or abababcc or abab cddc
o a
o b
o a
o b

o c
o c
o d
o d

or
• a
• b
• a
• b

• c
• c

or
• a
• b
• a
• b

• c
• d
• d
• c

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Making America Great Again Rispetto
by Michael Romani

A nation of faith gathers to listen close
To the words of us standing as together
To the president that most of us have chose
Reuniting to be healed and become better

Joining our hands in prayers and affirmation
A clarion call for our confirmation 
Commitment to the ideals that we all live for
For the beliefs that we Americans adore

(c) August 22, 2017 Michael Romani
All Rights Reserved