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Softly the raindrops
Mimic grandpa’s walking stick
I remember when
kat ~ 12 April 2016
This Haiku is in response to TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge – prompt words “walking stick”. Read other haiku or enter your own HERE.
Tag Archives: Poetry
April’s Poetry Month – A Poem a Day #11
Photo Credit: pixabay.com…It’s been a day!
Happy…happy? Monday? Sometimes Mondays are…MONDAYS! Oh I’m being polite. Sometimes Monday’s are a BITCH! Today was one of THOSE Mondays!
But I made a commitment to try a new poetry form each day this month, and so I shall! I give you the “Lai”. It’s French for “Lai”. At least that’s what my translator says. Original eh?!
The Lai is at least one stanza of nine lines with 2 rhymes between lines “a” and “b”. The rhyme sequence is: aabaabaab. And just to make it interesting, the “a” lines have 5 syllables and the “b” lines have 2 syllables. Got it?
It’s a challenging little form. If you’re adventurous, there is a variation called the Lai Nouveau with similar rhyme sequences, 16 lines and repeating lines! Yikes! I think I’ll save that for a day when I have a brain! Today all I got is a lai poem about a lai!
The Lai
This form is called Lai
one stanza, nine lines
Let’s see…
It follows strict rhyme
Line “A” rhymes six times
“B” three
“A” syllable’s five
Two “B”
A challenge to try
This I can’t deny
Oh me!!!
kat ~ 11 April 2016
(I’m even more confused!!!!)
Sunday’s Week in ReVerse ~ 10 April 2016
Happy Sunday to you and welcome to another installment of ReVerse. After weeks of random, discombobulated reverse summaries, this week seems a bit more connected. I’m not sure how that happened because I never plan these things in advance. Sunday’s look back is always wysiwyg.
This week I challenged myself to write a poem a day while exploring a new poetry form each time. It has been a learning week, and while the resulting poetry may be simple, clumsy attempts at writing, there is one thing that is positively true…I wrote something every day!
I am truly grateful to have this place to write. The fact that so many of you pause to read my words is more wonderful than I could have imagined. Thank you.
Sunday’s Week in ReVerse ~ 10 April 2016
healing hovers on the cusp | urging me to draw within
beyond the veil
descend like nectar
brilliance in-between
dew still clinging to the leaves
a secret to its keeper is a burden.
billowing blustering
glimpses of past moments
centuries ago
like moth to flame is drawn into the light
wings unfurled
off to do our business then
it’s a natural…
oops!kat
Cinquain Part 2
My brain was apparently scattered when I penned my cinquains for Jane Dougherty’s challenge this week. I completely overlooked the prompt words! We were instructed to use at least one of the following: Fly, lightning, verdant, unfurl, softly.
To make up for this oversight I decided to use all five. (All in fun of course and for the love of poetry…) But Jane, I did sweat a few drops of blood over this one! 🙂
P.S. Do I get extra credit? Heehee…kidding of course! 😉
Peace out and have a great weekend peeps!
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Raptor
wings unfurled
Flies the verdant landscape
Swoops like lightning, softly landing…
Nestingkat ~ 8 April 2016
April Poetry Month – A Poem a Day #8
Today’s form is the Triolet. I like this form because it contains a repeating refrain throughout. It gives the piece a romantic flair. The form seems simple enough. A Triolet contains 8 lines, usually written in iambic tetrameter (the common way) – 8 syllables with four metrical feet (or as I like to call them ‘Heartbeats’…da-dum da-dum da-dum dadum). Or if you’re looking for a challenge, iambic pentameter (the English version) – as it’s name suggests (penta), this version has 10 syllables per line with five metrical feet. The Rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB (with the capital letter lines repeating – or in other words, line one repeats at line 4 and line 7 and line 2 repeats at line 8)
Of course I like a challenge! 🙂 So I tried the British version. Repetition of the lines does make it rather melancholy. Or perhaps it was the topic I chose…Poor old sap fell head over heels only to be turned away. It’s a quite common scenario you know. Such is the drama of love…:)
Unrequited
you glowed so like a candle in the night
flashing licks of amber wooing me
like moth to flame is drawn into the light
you glowed so like a candle in the night
I tried to turn away with all my might
as I drew near, you swiftly set me free
you glowed so like a candle in the night
flashing licks of amber wooing me.
kat ~ 8 April 2016
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