Industrial Evolution

Chueh-chu poem

       Train tracks,
             Long since used,
       Steam trailed,
             Where steel cruised,
       Towns thrived,
             Lost to time,
       Bled raw,
             Till veins bruised,
        
       For self,
             Or for state,
       False wars,
             Need/greed fused,
       Strange suns,
             Host harsh boots
       In death,
             Black gold oozed.

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Chueh-chu is a Chinese form of poetry.

For my first Chueh-chu, I decided to take inspiration from the name, and open with a reference to locomotives.

Chueh-chu translates to ‘sonnet cut short’.

I’ve used a Wu-yen-shih metre; five monosyllable in each line with a caesura (a break between words in a metrical foot) after the second syllable.

It can use a rhyme scheme of AABA CADA, ABCB DBEB, or AABA AACA.

Personally, I loved the rhythm of the Wu-yen-shih metre, and know I’ll be coming back to this form again.

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Original poem by © Darius the Mate

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