POEM: Miracle on Belief Street

September 20, 2012 · Scotorum

This is a Decet. That’s a Nonet with ten lines instead of nine. Yes I made up the name. I prefer it to Etheree because it’s shorter and creates a sort of little suite of formats with the Nonet, and because I thought of it.

We’re doing Nonets about “ends” on the CPC Friday Fling starting tonight at 9. Hope you can come and try to find the means to write a Nonet about some End! This was written for the Thematic Attic Thursday challenge, where Diane and Bettie want writes about believing in yourself.

MIRACLE ON BELIEF STREET

A Dramatic Decet

or Etheree

Little Natalie Wood did not believe
in Santa, therefore not in herself.
Her new dad suggested she should.
So she said, cynically:
“I believe, I believe.”
But she was loved more
than she could know.
Because her
wish came
true.

Poetry