Note on: Juliet (4f) – Variation 5: Acrostic Wordku

Many thanks to Rickets from the Constructive Criticism group on AllPoetry for introducing me to the poetic form of Wordku, similar to a haiku, but counting words, not syllables. Given there are two here, I have kept the wry observations of the third line to just the final line.
Normal haiku have a syllable count of 5/7/5, and wordku has a word count of 5/7/5. But the haiku count is not strict, but rather a maximum (or so say those who write haiku far better than me. So when I wrote the first line as 5 [syllables] instead of words, I chose not to change it but just went to a 3/5/3 form to maintain the symmetry. The variation should probably be labeled as "Double Acrostic double shortened Wordku", but that's getting wordy. Wordku was created by the poet Awesomax.

The evidence for the relationship to the other variations is somewhat hidden here. The Theme is "The ambulance has come, and Juliet lies dead". This short poem was designed as a double acrostic poem - the first letters of each line spell "Juliet", while the last spell "is dead". This was a considerable challenge - acrostics are very easy in free verse, and marginally more difficult in a rhymed and metered poem. Making a meaningful poem with an acrostic at both ends, while limiting myself to 22 words, was much harder than a simple Sonnet or Villanelle.