Day Eight ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2013

Day Eight. 2 x 2 x 2. Two cubed. Four doubled. The beginning of a new week in National-Poetry-Month land. Whoo-eee! A couple of really great prompts today. Robert Lee Brewer suggests "an instructional poem. Your instructional poem could list instructions. Or it could capture an instructional moment." Maureen Thorson proposes "writing in ottava rima — an Italian form that, in English, usually takes the form of an eight-line stanza of iambic pentameter, with a rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c." Okay, Maureen and Robert, I am your man. Did both: instructions for writing ottava rima in the form of an ottava rima. How to Write an Ottava Rima The lines are a quartet of couples at a dance. A set of triplets cuts loose with another set, while the last pair, the fashionista ones, are twins, like the finale of a Shakespeare sonnet. They sport snakeskin cowboy boots, yell punchlines! Everyone looks away and smirks, you can bet. But they’re the point . . . what else is there to say? They wink, curtsy and bow, then sashay away. —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] And with that I sashay away. Short and sweet. Comment below, please, before you sashay? Thanks a bunch. Ingat, everyone.   ;-) POEM-A-DAY 2013 • Pick a day in April: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30