guilty, not sorry
somebody had to do it…
eat the last cookie
~kat
And it was delicious! A haiku for today’s NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 13: write a non-apology for the things you’ve stolen.
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the oracle speaks – NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 12
the oracle speaks
the tea leaves in your cup have much to say
one last sip and the oracle appears
so have a look, don’t toss them straight away
the tea leaves in your cup have much to say
the answers that you seek in damp display
will suddenly become magically clear
the tea leaves in your cup have much to say
one last sip and the oracle appears
~kat
For today’s NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 12, a Triolet is a poetic form consisting of only 8 lines. Within a Triolet, the 1st, 4th, and 7th lines repeat, and the 2nd and 8th lines do as well. The rhyme scheme is simple: ABaAabAB, capital letters representing the repeated lines.
Make writing a Triolet more challenging! Make each line 8 syllables in length (4 metrical feet), written in iambic tetrameter (the more common way), or try it in pentameter (English version) where each line only has 10 syllables (5 metrical feet)
only a rose – NaPoWriMo/ GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 11
only a rose
if your love for me is true as you say
bring to me a red rose every day
a red carnation’s sure to make me weep
like clusters of marigolds, my tears to keep
take care the blooms you choose for my bouquet
the wormwood taunts me when you are away
white dittany with my emotions play
swallow wort ensnared, I’m losing sleep
if your love for me is true
thorns should not deter your grand display
forget me not my dear, don’t be dismayed
the greatest cure for all is love that’s deep
a simple rose of red, painful and sweet
is all I ask to prove you’re here to stay
if your love for me is true
~kat
A rondeau for NaPoWriMo/ GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 11. It was a busy day. I barely managed to eke this one out…so many flowers to consider, so little time! The prompt: write a poem in which one or more flowers take on specific meanings.
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 other lines are longer (but all of the same metrical length)
high tea – NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 9
high tea
whistling
silver teapot
scalding vapor squealing
steeping
jasmine leaves
raw honey sweetened
savory
sandwiches stacked
atop plated doilies
cucumber
creamed cheese
dill dappled dainties
sweet
biscuits, cookies
to the bourgeois
curled
tongues wagging,
who’s doing who
where?
when? how?
more, do tell
raise your pinky
sip, don’t slurp
~kat
For today’s NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Prompt: the hay(na)ku (I decided to do the sonnet variation). Created by the poet Eileen Tabios and named by Vince, the hay(na)ku is a variant on the haiku. A hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza, where the first line has one word, the second line has two words, and the third line has three words. You can write just one, or chain several together into a longer poem. For example, you could write a hay(na)ku sonnet, like the one that Vince Gotera wrote back during NaPoWriMo 2012!
Concrete Haiku – NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 9
tRees bend with the w i n d
barely GREEN leaf bUd-BURSTS cling
i should be brEAThINg
~kat
A Haiku for today’s NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo Challenge Day 9: inspired by Kaschock’s use of space to organize her poems, write a “concrete” poem – a poem in which the lines and words are organized to take a shape that reflects in some way the theme of the poem.
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