Poetry Forms — Etheree

This is a modern form devised in the late 70s by an Arkansas poet named Etheree Taylor Armstrong. It consists of ten lines of free verse, the first line has one syllable, with each following increasing by one syllable.

Example of an Etheree

Yours!
My love.
I gift you,
My heart is yours.
You have given love --
I take it joyfully.
My life is given meaning
And you are given joy from me.
Love with me to the ending of time
In eternity our love survives --
We join to make our love more than the sum