Emotions as Objects

This is the W3 Challenge for this week, given by Anupama, the Poet of the Week.

• Challenge: Reimagine emotions as objects;
  • What if feelings took shape? Anger could be a blade, sharp and biting. Loneliness might be an echo in an empty room;
• Poetic form: Any
• Length: No more than 12 lines

I struggled with this. My first attempt was using the Irish Snam Suad. I put the rules below the poem — and I, of course, didn’t follow all of them. Also, is introvert an emotion or just a state of being?

---

A closed box
Rarely talks
Readily

Disconcert
-ed by crowds
Too too loud
In a shroud

Introvert

---

Rules for Snam Suad:

• all lines have 3 syllables with the following rhyme pattern: aabcdddc
• lines four and eight are 3-syllable words, all other lines end in monosyllabic words
• lines two and three share consonance
• lines three and four, six and seven, and four and seven share alliteration
• line seven uses alliteration

---

Frankly, I was not satisfied with my introvert poem so I tried again with a different Irish form: Deibide baise fri toi and different object-emotion pairing. Water — Peace. It makes sense to me, but I’m not sure I communicated it.

---

Rules for Deibide baise fri toi:

• The poem and/or stanzas within the poem are quatrains (or 4-line stanzas).
• Rhyme scheme for each stanza is a simple aabb pattern.
• Lines one and two rhyme on a two-syllable word; lines three and four rhyme on a monosyllabic word.
• Line one has three syllables, line two has seven, line three has seven, and line four has one