Prompt Seven – Text Prompt:

The viator is a poetic form invented by Robin Skelton

It’s a pretty simple form where the first line is used again as refrain in the second line of the second stanza, and the third line of the third stanza, and so on and so forth depending on how many stanzas you include.

The last line of the final stanza must be the refrain, so you start and end on it.

 

Shoo! Scat! Go Away! Please?

 

Shoo! Scat! Go Away! Please?

I need other ideas today.

Can’t write about you all the time,

so go, let me get on with my day.

 

You’re invading my head, intruding my space.

Shoo! Scat! Go Away! Please?

Go back to your frames hung on the wall,

be my muse, not an annoying tease.

 

I’ve written so much on you two already you know,

you mustn’t get quite so needy.

Shoo! Scat! Go Away! Please?

Who would think parents were so greedy.

 

Your dying was not all that happened to me,

The grief has ebbed, my life has ease.

I’m ready to write on other themes now,

Shoo! Scat! Go Away! Please?