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Thanks, Mark.
As many of you know, I am very partial to the villanelle form. Make that your assignment for this next round. Here's a good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Girl's_Love_Song_(poem
Advice: Choose your repeating lines carefully. They are most of the challenge, to keep them flowing as they repeat.
Good luck
Pen
Don't pet the werewolves in the zoo.
They say their teeth are sharp and bite.
Don't let the mermaids cuddle you.
They tease with lies until they're true
Insisting what they did was right.
Don't pet the werewolves in the zoo.
The past might break with what is new.
The future won't stay out of sight.
Don't let the mermaids cuddle you.
They say you'll die, though, if you do.
Don't feed the ogres. They might fight.
Don't pet the werewolves in the zoo.
Don't breathe the fairy dust blown through
The bars that hold these creatures tight.
Don't let the mermaids cuddle you.
You did? I know. I did it, too.
Some rules are made to cage delight.
Don't pet the werewolves in the zoo.
Don't let the mermaids cuddle you.
Broken Love Song
He sang a broken love song
another melancholy Autumn day,
the lone bird flew away, so long.
The wind braces me to be strong
like fallen leaves I dream of slipping away,
he sang a broken love song.
His fragile beauty was so wrong
yet silently I wished he could stay,
the lone bird flew away, so long.
Thunder claps like a gong
while in the rain to and fro I sway,
he sang a broken love song.
In the cage of my heart he did not belong
I watched him disappear in skies so gray,
the lone bird flew away, so long.
Why this agony do I prolong?
the bitterness of my soul in decay
he sang a broken love song,
the lone bird flew away, so long.
Anyone else got a poem? Between two fine writers now, but who knows you could still win if you enter...
Give me the weekend, I'am struggling to get my head round this.
Tuesday.
There is nothing on the telly for tonight,
Just twenty seven channels all the same,
And the evening stretches on out of sight.
I know what we could do to make it right,
We could try some conversation if you're game,
Cos there's nothing on the telly for tonight.
I'll try to keep my chatter nice and bright,
Though an answer would be good now and again,
For the evening stretches on out of sight.
And though I think my words deserve requite,
you just sigh and say you think it is a shame,
that there's nothing on the telly for tonight.
If we've naught to say at least we'll be polite,
We never talk and no one is to blame,
And the evening stretches on out of sight.
So it seems we cannot talk and cannot fight,
How ever did we come to be this tame,
And the evening stretches on out of sight
And there's nothing on the telly for tonight.
After much consideration, I think YesNo had the best flow of rhyming words which is the essence of the villianelle. You're up, YesNo!
YesNo congratulations!!
Thanks, Pendragon and cacian!
The next form is taken from the Four and Twenty short form poetry site: http://4and20poetry.com/
Basically, the poem has to have 20 or fewer words on 4 or fewer lines. There are no other constraints.
Deadline: Sunday, December 23rd.
They Fall
Your eyes melted into the sky
as jellyfish illuminate the night,
cosmic bodies, they fall to earth
becoming alien beauties.
In the blackness of space
Time means nothing
Here inside my heart
Time means everything
Pendragon
life a quick swirl of water
splashes and rises whenever
you're tired
water is life only for your eyes
MESSENGER Probe
Mercury polar water ice found
No signs of life noted
Administration has yet to acknowledge
Global warming there affects Earth
11/30/2012
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
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Originally Posted by cacian
...you might want to wipe your eyes and re-count.
Oops thanks Mark!Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable