Today’s challenge: write a fourteener. Fourteeners can be have any number of lines, but each line should have fourteen syllables. Traditionally, each line consisted of seven iambic feet (i.e., an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, times seven), but non-iambic fourteeners also exist.

I longed for, searched for, hoped for,

Signs that winter fled for spring.

Purple pushed away dead brown,

Yellow stretched green to birth.

Blue on white whispered welcome.

Alleluia. I Believe.

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