Nine Lives - NaPoWriMo Day 9

Nine Lives

Nine lives they say

A cat may seem

To have many more

They fall from trees

Run in front of cars

Fight on fences

Curiosity kills

Yet live on they do

For another day

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Write a nine-line poem. Although the fourteen-line sonnet is often considered the “baseline” form of verse in English, Sir Edmund Spenser wrote The Faerie Queene using a nine-line form of his own devising, and poetry in other languages (French, most particularly) has always taken advantage of nine-line forms. You can find information of various ways of organizing rhyme schemes, meters, etcetera for nine-line works here. And of course, you can always eschew such conventions entirely, and opt to be a free-verse nine-line poet.