Square Poems 33: Alderfly Acrostic Poem by Kim Barney

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Alderflies live as adults in vegetation near ponds and streams. They are named for the trees in which they often congregate. The adults are sluggish fliers that apparently do not eat. They live for only a few days and die soon after mating. However, the aquatic larvae live for a year or more underwater, crawling along stones and feeding actively on other small insects. They come ashore to pupate, burying themselves in the mud, and emerge the following spring for their brief life as mature alderflies.


I call these square poems because they have the same number of syllables per line as there are lines in the poem. For example, a four-line poem would have four syllables per line, and a five-line poem would have five syllables per line.

This poem has eight lines, so it has eight syllables per line.

Square poems do not have to rhyme, and they do not have to be acrostics.

To see my other square poems with lower numbers from here, just keep clicking on the 'previous poem' button.

To see square poems with higher numbers, just keep clicking on the 'next poem' button.

19 February 2017