Maureen Thorson's NaPoWriMo prompt today is, "I challenge you to get rather classically formal, and compose a poem in sapphics. These are quatrains whose first three lines have eleven syllables, and the fourth, just five. There is also a very strict meter that alternates trochees (a two-syllable foot, with the first syllable stressed, and the second unstressed) and dactyls (a three-syllable foot, with the first syllable stressed and the remainder unstressed). The first three lines consist of two trochees, a dactyl, and two more trochees. The fourth line is a dactyl, followed by a trochee." Robert Lee Brewer's PAD suggestion for a poem is, "For today’s prompt, write a seasonal poem. This should be a snap for haiku poets; after all, inserting seasonal words is a rule for the form. However, you don’t have to write haiku to write a poem that references or happens in one of the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Pick a season or include them all." Here's my poem for day eleven, combining the sapphics and seasonal prompts. Advertisement A little tongue in cheek. No images as such Moving to the next poem, Alan trumps with a more serious offering: "I am combining the NaPoWriMo prompt for a Sapphic form with the PAD for a seasonal poem." Housebound Okay, friends, your turn. Try writing some sapphics. It's not as hard as it seems once you get the rhythm going in your head: trochee, trochee, dactyl, trochee, trochee. DAH-dum, DAH-dum, DAH-dum-dum, DAH-dum, DAH-dum. Friends, won't you comment, please? Love to know what you're thinking. To comment, look for a red line below that starts Posted by, then click once on the word comments in that line. If you don't find the word "comments" in that line, then look for a blue link below that says Post a comment and click it once. Thanks! Ingat, everyone. ヅ |
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*miffed* You and Holmes make it seem so easy to use that form!
Yeah, those Sapphics are tough all right. I tried my very first one for the prompt - I guess it came out okay. By the way, I gave you a shout out on my Day 10 blog post.
Colonialist, thanks. Though Alan's way better at it than I am. I had to make mine a joke so I could keep it down to one stanza. I wasn't sure I could do several sapphics like Alan did.
Bruce, thanks! I'll come and take a look.
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