image link The form is a rondeau. A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short – a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The…
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Day 4 — Opossum Acrostic
image link Oft-unfairly-maligned Parental Omnivorous Shakespearian Snake-tailed Unguental Meanderer Please click on the image link to read the story of the ‘possum family rescue — includes video!
A day at the beach
image link A Diamante is a seven-lined contrast poem set up in a diamond shape. Body warm, supple undulating, scintillating, welcoming strong, wet, cold, swimming struggling, drowning, disappearing lifeless, rigid Corpse Word of the Day Challenge — scintillating
Day 3 — The valley of the shadow of death
image link The other ones were simple play Us, though, for real in ev’ry way Hurt brings life to shadow of death you walk, not talk, with silent breath; our growth at bay. * Mind in turmoil, throat has a lump, Our future can’t end o’er a bump! It wasn’t that bad — or was…
Day 2 — Jimmy*
image link I worked for many years in the juvenile court. Jimmy is a composite. The worker may leave the job, but the children will never leave the worker. Tanka: An unrhymed Japanese poem consisting of five lines of 5/7/5/7/7. Tanka is generally written in two parts. The first three lines is one part, and…
Day 1 — Surrender
* The ponds lie beyond the yard, beyond the fields, beyond thick brush between here and there. Each year the brush multiplies, ever more impassable, they seem ever farther away. This year the ponds were not seen, as the path leading to them has overgrown, and trees have fallen over it, from thunderstorms with sheer…
Quintessence
image link When your hand reaches for my breast, quintessence slaps it away. When your lips stretch towards mine, quintessence curls up and punches you in yours, In the night, when your sneaking leads to my room, quintessence grabs the knife. When you try to bend me over in your office, quintessence opens the door…
