..This is Maxwell’s “Mom…MOM…wake UP MAAAMAAA…I have to go potty!!!” look…at 4 am!!!
It is day nine of National Poetry Month. I have chosen a Tercet Cascade for my poetry form today, prompted by a middle of the night wake up call…that has lapsed into early morning. No rest for my weary monkey brain.
I do love my very big puppy Maxwell…but 4 am Max??? Sheesh! Give your old mom a break! As I type he is blissfully snoring at my side. Yep…gotta love him!
At any rate, this poem won’t win any awards. Haha! A bit of whimsy, a touch of angst perhaps, but importantly, true to the prescribed form…hey, what do you expect at 4 am!
A side note…my router went offline in the middle of this, so most of the time was spent FINDING the documentation in order to reconfigure the blasted thing so I could log online to post today’s little ditty! I mention this in case you were wondering if this Cascade poem took me 3 hours to write! 🙂 I will need to revisit this poetry form one day and give it proper homage …but for now, I need coffee!
Here is a description of a basic Cascade. There are no hard fast rules regarding rhyme or meter. It involves taking a line from the first stanza, sequentially, to repeat as the last line of each additional stanza. The number of stanzas depends on the number of lines you use for the initial one. You can set it up as a three-line stanza (Tercet) or a four-line stanza (quatrain). You might even expand to a 5 line or 6 line..the sequence would be the same, looking something like this: for a Tercet – ABC-abA-cdB-efC / for a Quatrain – ABCD-abcA-defB-ghiC-jklD…you get the idea!
Potty BreakRoused awake at 4 am
for my puppy’s potty break
interrupted REMOff to do our business then
half asleep and fuzzy brained
roused awake at 4 am!How much longer must he take?
I am losing patience fast
for my puppy’s potty breakThose who call dogs “man’s best friend”
likely never lost a wink
Interrupted REM!kat~9 April 2016
like mercury colliding... 
April 9th, 2016 at 8:01 am
Oh dear poor you! Max, give your mum a break!!!!
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April 9th, 2016 at 8:06 am
Time to start the day! haha…and birthday celebrations with two of my granddaughters…Macy – 11 and Zoe – 4! Tomorrow I can sleep! 🙂
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April 9th, 2016 at 8:08 am
Aw! Happy birthday to your two little poppets! !!!
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April 9th, 2016 at 8:09 am
Thanks Ritu! 🙂
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April 9th, 2016 at 7:44 pm
Oh gosh darn that Maxwell! I think you did a great job with your sleep-deprived brain! 😀
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April 9th, 2016 at 9:35 pm
Haha! Thanks! I had to edit a few times after I posted! Duplicated paragraphs and bad formatting. Poor fold that sW it right after I posted it. Thank goodness for the edit feature!
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April 9th, 2016 at 9:40 pm
Yep!
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April 13th, 2016 at 5:36 pm
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