Alankar(Decor)-108 Poem by Indira Renganathan

Sugar Cravings (Compound Word Verse)


The Compound Word Verse is:


stanzaic, written in 5 tercets.
syllabic,8-8-3 syllables per line.
rhymed, rhyme scheme aax bbx ccx ddx eex; x being unrhymed.
each tercet ends with a compound of a stem word in the title.


Sugar Cravings


Look, how a diabetic craves

Despite doctor's caution enslaves

For sugar


Watch firstlyhow he just slips out

To the kitchen snouted, we doubt

Sugary


Watch more as he goes out for 'walk'-

Daily halt for a sweet shoptalk

High sugared


Then at a wedding, just don't miss

He gobbles the way all with' issssss'

Sugar tongued



Sugar and spice'-his only hymn

Tell me, who can stop and change him

Sugar free