Double dactyls: Tazri’a-M’tzora

A double this week:

Linenny-linenny,
Garments with skin-disease
Tend to display a bright
Green or red streak.

Wash (with a powder that’s
Non-biological),
Hang out to dry and then
Wait for one week.

…and…

Itchily, scratchily,
Scaly contaminants
Form on the skin, on the
Head or the beard.

Given the issue is
Dermatological,
Putting the priests in charge
Seems kinda weird.

You can play too by posting in the comments! A reminder of the rules of the “dismally difficult” double dactyl:

1. There must be eight lines.
2. Lines 1-3 and 5-7 must each consist of a pair of dactyls (that is, dum-der-der dum-der-der).
3. Lines 4 and 8 must be choriambs (that is, dum-der-der-dum).
4. Lines 4 and 8 must rhyme.
5. Line 1 must be nonsense.
6. Line 2 must be the subject of the poem, ideally a name that is itself a pair of dactyls (eg ‘Laurence Olivier’).
7. Line 6 must be a single word that is itself a pair of dactyls (eg ‘cardiovascular’).

And my own past entries can be found here.