Incremental Poetry ~ 15 Lines

By the Waters

Creation the more acquainting
Silent and happily painting
Waterscape

On placid lake’s surface striding
While from hungry nibblers hiding
Waterbug

Driftwood worn smooth, freely floating
Tumbling, each surface recoating
Waterlogged

Such power invigorating
The thunder exhilarating
Waterfall

Into my exile inviting
You, on stationery writing
Watermark

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Welcome to my series, Incremental Poetry, where each week the featured poem will be one line longer than the one I share the week before. I have no idea how long I’ll keep this up, so we’ll just have to wait and see. Thank you for stopping by.

Scansion:
Compound Word Verse
invented by Margaret R. Smith
consists of 5 tercets, for a total of 15 lines
Syllabic count for each stanza: 8-8-3
Rhyme scheme: aab ccb ddb eeb ffb, where b is a compound word related to a word in the title