Square Poems 18: Mosquito Acrostic Poem by Kim Barney

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Mosquitoes are the cause of more deaths in the world than any other creature. Eliminate any unnecessary pools of standing or stagnant water around your residence. Get inoculated against diseases that are prevalent in your area. Death to mosquitoes, not to humans!

I call these square poems because they have the same number of syllables per line as there are lines in the poem. For example, a four-line poem would have four syllables per line, and a five-line poem would have five syllables per line.

This poem has eight lines, so it has eight syllables per line.

Square poems do not have to rhyme, and they do not have to be acrostics.

To see my other square poems with lower numbers from here, just keep clicking on the 'previous poem' button.

To see square poems with higher numbers, just keep clicking on the 'next poem' button.

30 November 2016