Sleepless

Punnett — A Less Common Poetic Form

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Sleep
Evades me
Eyes
Won’t sleep
Alexa, play some music
Nature sounds
Looping
Until I
Sleep

© Huma Masood, 2021

• The poetic form, Punnett, is based on the ratios in a Punnett Square.
• The poem must be about a biological topic, with the first line being a
  part of or offspring of the last line.
• The form has nine lines, with a word count of 1/2/1/2/4/2/1/2/1.
• There is no rhyming structure.

Source of form rules