Text Prompt:

Every year I made sure to include at least one formal poem. The viator is a poetic form invented by Robin Skelton. I first encountered it as part of Robert Lee Brewer’s Writer’s Digest Poetic Forms Friday series.

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.

To learn more about this form, and read a sample poem, go here.

Image Prompt:

Photo by Martin Torrez