If orange is the new black, then Tuesday is the new Monday! My apologies for failing to post yesterday. I got caught up in the end of summer school and grading.
The Englyn cyrch is a Welsh poetic form consisting of any number of quatrains. In each stanza, the lines are composed of seven syllables, with lines 1, 2, and 4 sharing an end rhyme. The end rhyme of line 3 rhymes with a middle syllable (3rd, 4th, or 5th) or line 4. Here's what the pattern looks like.
x x x x x x a
x x x x x x a
x x x x x x b
x x x b x x a
You can read more about Englyn at Wikipedia.
That's it. Easy-peasy, right? I hope you'll join me this week in writing an Englyn cyrch. Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.
It seemed so very, very real
ReplyDeleteHow she cured diabetes
reads something like a treatise
on the power of the mind.
When given time it can tease
the brain into believing
ill or not. Perceiving
some rather false delusion,
pure illusion. Achieving
while asleep, a fresh resolve
to take charge of alcohol
consumption and less unwise
chomping French fries, all-in-all
more exercise, some weight loss,
bring order to this chaos
she lives now unconsciously.
A dream! Says she. O, good gosh,
I don’t have diabetes!
What I shall here-on eat is
to be what is good for me.
(My racquet please)…and tennis.
©jRobinson2016