18B. Four relatively famous shadormas © Bruce Goodman 8 February 2016 (A note of explanation: I had/have decided to post a poem on the first of each month written in a particular poetic form. Any poem after that first posting throughout that month will use that form. For the earlier months of this year, the forms were chosen at random. For February it is the shadorma. The shadorma is an invented poetic form that does not work in English. Everything in English has “syllables” and simply to divide a “poem” into a set number of syllables per line is a nonsense. My contribution to this ridiculous form is to point out that the syllabic pattern was widely used even before the idiot who invented it invented it. The form is 3/5/3/3/7/5 per stanza. Look who used it! WOW! I publish these four poems to highlight the sheer nonsense of the form. I won’t post any more poems this month as I think the selected form is a load of crapulent garbage. Life is always a learning curve.)

By Jesus Our Father, Which art in heaven Hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done On earth as it is In heaven. By Abraham Lincoln Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, u- pon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the pro- position that “all men are created equal.” - - - As used by Marie Curie One two three Four five six seven Eight nine ten Eleven Twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen Sixteen seventeen As used by Jane Austen A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X YZ.

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