Cascade Poem

The cascade poem was a form invented by Udit Bhatia. For the cascade poem, a poet takes each line from the first stanza of a poem and makes those the final lines of each stanza afterwards.

Happen/ Skin Diver

Somewhere over the rainbow,
Umbrellas take their stand.
Cruel humor that looks books

Confidently; his punctilio,
Etiquette. Centuries spanned
Diaphanous rainbow

Enlivens the drab horizon.
Repatriations ex banishment.
Enterprises stand.

Skin divers swim, with flippers
Underwater, someone’s Jacques makes
Bubbles instead of books…

 

Reviews

[Pryde Foltz]

Skin divers swim, with flippers
Underwater, someone’s Jacques makes
Bubbles instead of books…

A clever bit of absurdism here. Love the way you turn images around and around.

[Happy hours]

impressive style of writing....cascade poem...beutiful write.... :)

[Fariha Tahseen Karim]

'wow' the word blurted out through my lips. Exotic piece poem. Few words used to describe a lot. Really impressive

[The Black Warrior]

This is very lovely. simple and short yet so beautifull. Very interesting! :D

[Maglia Weaver Twill]

Yes it can be any poem, there are no meter or syllable restrictions, the only rule established is the line repetition is that, it looks like/or the pattern is ABC xxA xxB xxC, of course in the mathematical age we can do what we like with it, extend it,

[KWP]

oh ok thank you for that wee lesson at the top there, I am going to give that a go for sure, how inspiring, can it be any poem? Does it have to be the same poet?

what a neat little project.

Your words always seem to cry out for an image to be formed - and it is, they seem to dance and bounce around refusing to settle, bringing them to life ...

Thanks for sharing xx

[Konigin]

How cool... This was beautiful! It exploded my brain with its in-depth simplicity! ^.^

[Maglia Weaver Twill]

Thanks, I enjoyed writing it, now I'm going to try to write something else, not sure what yet, I've been away from my computer for hours and need to channel my feelings through the dictionary

[Konigin]

I believe that you can do something AMAZING!!!! :) Good luck!