Cortes Nonet Poem – Farming – Lovers of Nature
#New Poetry Form
Farming is the life
Life of love and devotion
Devotion, commitment for farming
Farming is a real passion that we all love
Love from sunrise to sunset daily and much longer
Longer days calving-time, harvesting, twenty-four hours a day
Day is another word for counting the calendar of a lifetime.
Farming is a winner, where there’s value for the soil, water, wildlife
Wildlife flying over head, animals calling in the bush
Bush where conservation obligations always reign
Reign supreme for the future generations
Generations most often value land
Land, farmers always cherish
Cherish forever.
Cortes Nonet – invented by Josephine Ann Louise Cortes-Love aka MajesticRose on AllPoetry, March 2012. It was inspired by the original Nonet.
14 lines (2 stanzas, 7 lines each)
First stanza syllable count as follows: 5/7/9/11/13/15/17
Second stanza syllable count as follows: 17/15/13/11/9/5
The last word of each line is the first word of the next line. (word form)
The first word of the second stanza can either be the last word of the first stanza OR a new word
The poem can rhyme or have no rhyme at all. Centred.