Hour Eight – Gigans must be 16 lines in length with seven stanzas (each stanza is separated by a line break). It goes couplet (two lines), tercet (three lines), couplet, couplet, couplet, tercet, couplet.

The first line is also the eleventh line, line six is repeated as line 12 as well.

Optionally the closing couplet should put a twist on the poem, but that isn’t a requirement.

 

The Introvert

 

I want to stand next to you

and not feel any less.

 

I want to be in a room full of bright souls

and feel sleek. I long to belong

not be an unwelcome mess.

 

I want to be on the same page

and not have to pretend

 

or bend and blend,

struggle to befriend.

 

I want to stop looking in.

I want to stand next to you

 

and be on the same page,

perform on the same stage,

alive in the same cage.

 

But. I’m free, you know?

Just. Always outside. Looking in.