I've been playing around for a while with writing a villanelle, but it hasn't been working, so I took some of the lines I liked and put them into a terzanelle. A terzanelle is cross between a terza rima and a villanelle. It uses the villanelle’s form of five triplets and a quatrain with the interlocking rhyme scheme of the terza rima.
Inspired by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's site Sharing Our Notebooks, and the recent workshop I gave entitled The Art and Science of Nature Journaling, I've been writing more poems in my nature journal. This poem is my first draft about the act of observing and journaling. It needs a lot of work, but it's a start.
Untitled Terzanelle
With a scientist’s eye and poet’s heart
nature’s recorded in fine detail
with words chosen carefully, journal as art
observe river and stream, hill and vale
note all that you hear, touch, smell and see
nature recorded in fine detail
sketch flora and fauna, that robin, that tree
stop for a moment to take it all in
note all that you hear, touch, smell and see
taking stock of the world lights a fire within
humbles the soul with such beautiful sights
stop for a moment to take it all in
sunset gives way to bright twinkling lights
the moon and the stars, all the heavens inspire
humble the soul with such beautiful sights
keep your eyes open, make time to admire
with a scientist’s eye and poet’s heart
the moon and the stars, all the heavens inspire
your words written carefully, journal as art
Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2019. All rights reserved.
Happy Saturday all. See you tomorrow for another original poem.
That. Is. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI love, love, love it.
I love that we try all of these new poetic forms each year, but I ADORE what you can do with a good repetition of a plain old villanelle or terzanelle, which I don't think we've done as a group - ? Must try. Thank you for sharing.