GOetry - Let's Rondel
Welcome to GOetry! A weekly poetry club.
Every Monday, you'll receive a new poetry prompt and have until the following Monday to submit your poetic creations. Come join the fun! Post your finished work under the #GOetry and don't forget to tag me @isiaiowin so I can see your work.
Thank you for joining in writing sonnets last week! The incredible work you produced was amazing to read.
A Rondel is a French form of poetry dating back to the 14th century. It consists of 13 lines arranged in three stanzas, typically two quatrains (four-line stanzas) followed by a quintet (five-line stanza), with repeated lines throughout the poem.
The rhyme scheme is: ABba / abAB / abbaA(B), where uppercase letters represent repeated lines.
A common variant, known as a Rondel Prime, adds a 14th line, turning the final quintet into a sestet.
If you'd like to write a Rondel Prime, simply add an extra line to the end!
Reflecting by: Lawrencealot
When desolation grabs your heart and forces tears
Let nature speak, reminding you not all is known.
When you, so young were taken to the funeral biers
my faith was shattered; all beliefs and hopes were thrown
away. I felt no comfort thinking heaven’s spheres
could somehow recompense for earthly love we’d grown.
When desolation grabs your heart and forces tears
Let nature speak reminding you not all is known.
I went to our lagoon, our waterfall appears
today to look like you, and hope renewed is sown
into my soul. We lived and loved! This thought coheres.
That truly shines. Remember we are just on loan.
When desolation grabs your heart and forces tears
Let nature speak reminding you not all is known.
But most of all have fun! 💚 Moon
