Lo ba-shamayim-ba,
Present and future Jews,
Men, women, children, all
Stand here this day.Now you must make a choice
Eschatological:
Life (be obedient), or
Death (go astray).
You can play too by posting in the comments! A reminder of the rules of the “dismally difficult” double dactyl:
- There must be eight lines.
- Lines 1-3 and 5-7 must each consist of a pair of dactyls (that is, dum-der-der dum-der-der).
- Lines 4 and 8 must be choriambs (that is, dum-der-der-dum).
- Lines 4 and 8 must rhyme.
- Line 1 must be nonsense.
- Line 2 must be the subject of the poem, ideally a name that is itself a pair of dactyls (eg ‘Laurence Olivier’).
- 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.

Plinkety-plonkety.
Johann Sebastian.
Fugues for the keyboard? – he
Writes one a day.
Strictly canonic and
Contrapunctistical.
Oh! He’s just finished one.
Fancy a play?
Contrapunctistical, noch!