Christmas Sweet Potato and Squash (Inverse Double Epulaeryu)
Sweet potato whipped with cream
Butter and sugar
Nutmeg blend with marshmallows
Baked in acorn squash
Aroma rising
Taste so yum—
my!
Sweet!
So charming
Mouth water flowing
Give me this baked squash
Accented with cranberry
Sprinkled with walnuts
Filled with baked sweeeet potato
© Joseph, 12/12/07
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The poem starts with the regular format of seven syllables in the first line and
progress down to one syllable in the seventh and last line. However, the second
section starts with an inverse of the first section, whereby the poem starts with
the seventh and last line of one syllable and ends with the first line of seven
syllables. The form is 7/5/7/5/5/3/1/ and inverse 1/3/5/5/7/5/7. This form was
invented by Joseph S. Spence, Sr.
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