Line Messaging is a poetry form created by Angel Favazza is a poetic form wherein the poet utilizes the last line of each stanza to help represent an overall idea. So if the last line of each stanza is read together (separately from the poem) it will have an independent message or be a poem all on its own.

Example #1:

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I, a mere woman; yet of mind and heart,
walk alone past the cemetery gates.
Reaching out to touch the crude, dim metal
a glorious thought takes me—

I stand still for my heart can walk no more
and the vital force within my breast
grieves with the knowledge of a youth now faded.
Submit; succumb to this sublime graveyard,
beyond the sorrow of generations gone.

Independent flowers mock the very
ground from which they rise;
Inspiration grows within me.

Copyright © 2009 Angel Favazza

Example #2:

Homeless

Help me make sense 
of his cardboard life,
is there no one who will
lend a hand to history?

Charge up hill like a solider
and give him electric fire?

Teach him every thing and
unveil our electronic Eden,
an online life—
one of electric solitude, 
to finally be electrically-tethered.

And then, 
maybe then, we won’t blame ourselves.

Copyright © 2009 Angel Favazza