Day: April 26, 2014

  • KIBBLE, WOOL SOCKS, OIL CHANGES, & DOG HAIR

    Well, here are four more poems to go with the prompts #24-27. 

    #24. KIBBLE is a quatrain (4 lines per stanza) with a rhyme scheme: ABAB/CDCD (Stanza 4 is what is called “approximate rhyme.”)

                             "Kibbler"

    I'm a fan of chopping veggies,

    But I like to do it by hand,

    And we're not talking some wedgies,

    Or even cubed or a small strand.

     

    And since a “kibble’s a pellet . . .

    The size of a coarsely ground grain;"

    And I cut them tinier yet,

    It’s as “kibbler” I've gained fame!

    © cjj – 2014

    #25. "Wool Socks"

    (One of the forms of the cinquain: #s of syllables=2,4,6,8,2)

    Wool socks!

    Yes they are warm

    But they itch so badly!

    So glad for other options to –

    Wool socks!

    © cjj – 2014

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    #26. "Oil Change" -  This next poem I used a type new to me called the Sedoka.

    The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts:5/7/7, 5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.

     "Oil Changes"

    I formerly used

    Only vegetable oil,

    But then olive oil I met.

     

    My car needs new oil,

    It’s important to change it.  

    So it's off for an oil change!

    © cjj – 2014

    Prompt #27. DOG HAIR is a quatrain, plus a couplet. Each line (including the title has 7 syllables.  The rhyme scheme for the poem is: ABABCC

    ?   ?   ?   ?

    "Interrupting Know-It-All"

    (Background-- Contemplating to oneself aloud, "while the unwanted advisor cuts into" ones thoughts.)

    Red, brown, yellow, black, and white ...

    "Wait, I know that children's song!"

    Long, short? Wavy, straight? Curls tight?

    "For your style? Rose red and long!

    Need help choosing? Here's the way ..."

    No! My next dog: Hair - spiked gray!

    Dog_01_Face_Cartoon_Grey

     

    © cjj – 2014

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