HUGE thanks to Rosemary Nissen-Wade at Poets And Storytellers United for producing this week’s Wild Friday Thought Provoker (#21), introducing me to this THIS FORM – THE ELEVENSIE, invented and promoted by Kerri Shying, a poet of Chinese, Australian and Wiradjuri heritage.
You can READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE, but be advised: you will want to try your hand.
I hope I’ve done it justice…
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it’s a small enough planet
spinning too quickly every day
on its tilted axis letting us
sleep but always making us
get up and go hopeful
round and round around the sun
year after year blue skies
follow black skies starlit too long
making us think the morning
will never come again but it does
and we rise blow out the candles
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Scrambled, Not Fried 
Feels like a birthday. One more trip around the sun.