Welcome to my April 2025 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, N is for …Ninette

“A Ninette is a type of poem which contains nine lines, each line with a difference of one syllable from the previous one. The syllables increase with one number, from the first line until the midpoint where they start decreasing. The syllable count of a Ninette is one, two, three, four, five, four, three, two and then back to one. The first and the last line of this type of poem do not have to be necessarily the same. They can either be synonyms or antonyms. Ninette poems can be prepared to talk about many different subjects. It could be love, philosophy, nature, animals, relationships dilemmas or any other themes. Poets form them to display thoughts and emotions in the form of words in a beautiful pattern.“

Snack

peach
on plate
beckons me
to lift and eat
but before biting
I put it down
and instead
turn to
pear

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Thanks for visiting my 2025 A to Z Challenge – Letter N.