Valentine's Villanelle Challenge

Piscator · Jan 19, 2016

Valentine's Day is just a few weeks off and still no challenge!

So I'm taking the heart by its arrow and proposing an challenge to all the free versers hear to submit to the restraints of poetic form and craft a Valentine poem using whichever structured form tickles your fancy. I'm partial to a Valentine villanelle in part because I'm fond of alliteration but also because, I've been gobsmacked by Elisabeth Bishop's One Art https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/one-art

Please pm your opus to me and I'll post as they come in on a separate thread. As usual, I'll not attribute authorship until later. The challenge will run until Feb 12 but I'm flexible and I too am bad with deadlines.

Sinseria · Jan 19, 2016

Piscator said:
Valentine's Day is just a few weeks off and still no challenge!

So I'm taking the heart by its arrow and proposing an challenge to all the free versers hear to submit to the restraints of poetic form and craft a Valentine poem using whichever structured form tickles your fancy. I'm partial to a Valentine villanelle in part because I'm fond of alliteration but also because, I've been gobsmacked by Elisabeth Bishop's One Art https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/one-art

Please pm your opus to me and I'll post as they come in on a separate thread. As usual, I'll not attribute authorship until later. The challenge will run until Feb 12 but I'm flexible and I too am bad with deadlines.

cant wait to see what this challenge will bring ...hehe a lovey dovey poem??? I will have to brood on this one a while

greenmountaineer · Jan 19, 2016

"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Thomas gets more attention, but as far as I'm concerned, "One Art" is the touchstone for villanelles.

HarryHill · Jan 20, 2016

*deletes a bunca stuff* I've been in the thread of forms brushing up and have discovered some variation in the examples, I'm in

UnderYourSpell · Jan 20, 2016

Piscator said:
Valentine's Day is just a few weeks off and still no challenge!

So I'm taking the heart by its arrow and proposing an challenge to all the free versers hear to submit to the restraints of poetic form and craft a Valentine poem using whichever structured form tickles your fancy. I'm partial to a Valentine villanelle in part because I'm fond of alliteration but also because, I've been gobsmacked by Elisabeth Bishop's One Art https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/one-art

Please pm your opus to me and I'll post as they come in on a separate thread. As usual, I'll not attribute authorship until later. The challenge will run until Feb 12 but I'm flexible and I too am bad with deadlines.

So it's any form?

Tzara · Jan 20, 2016

UnderYourSpell said:
So it's any form?

Good catch, Annie. I saw the thread title and assumed it should be a villanelle. But Piscator explicitly says: "So I'm taking the heart by its arrow and proposing a challenge to all the free versers here to submit to the restraints of poetic form and craft a Valentine poem using whichever structured form tickles your fancy."

So, rondeau, maybe. Or villanelle, for me.

Or 5-7-5 haiku:

Her body leavens
my dough, and I rise. Tonight's
all free pizza, girl!

OK. Perhaps not haiku.

UnderYourSpell · Jan 20, 2016

Tzara said:
Good catch, Annie. I saw the thread title and assumed it should be a villanelle. But Piscator explicitly says: "So I'm taking the heart by its arrow and proposing a challenge to all the free versers here to submit to the restraints of poetic form and craft a Valentine poem using whichever structured form tickles your fancy."

So, rondeau, maybe. Or villanelle, for me.

Or 5-7-5 haiku:
Her body leavens
my dough, and I rise. Tonight's
all free pizza, girl!
OK. Perhaps not haiku.

Ha ha very good! But isn't a Terzanelle easier?

Piscator · Jan 20, 2016

Originally Posted by UnderYourSpell View Post
So it's any form?

Tzara said:
Good catch, Annie. I saw the thread title and assumed it should be a villanelle. But Piscator explicitly says: "So I'm taking the heart by its arrow and proposing a challenge to all the free versers here to submit to the restraints of poetic form and craft a Valentine poem using whichever structured form tickles your fancy."

So, rondeau, maybe. Or villanelle, for me.

Or 5-7-5 haiku:
Her body leavens
my dough, and I rise. Tonight's
all free pizza, girl!
OK. Perhaps not haiku.

Yes, although the thread's title is villanelle, in part because of the alliteration, any structured form is acceptable, including haiku/senyru. Limericks although acceptable, may be met with derision, and are generally nor recommended for slipping under your significant others pillow on V Day.

Trixareforkids · Jan 20, 2016

Foooorms?! Fuuuuuu...g!

Puts on big girl panties, whines about wearing panties, and grabs a pencil...

HarryHill · Jan 20, 2016

UnderYourSpell said:
So it's any form?

fuck no, it's a villanelle -_-

HarryHill · Jan 20, 2016

HarryHill said:
fuck no, it's a villanelle -_-

ETA: if I'm writing one I want everyone to suffer

Trixareforkids · Jan 20, 2016

HarryHill said:
ETA: if I'm writing one I want everyone to suffer

Well, I'm writing one, so they'll all have to suffer through reading it

HarryHill · Jan 20, 2016

Trixareforkids said:
Well, I'm writing one, so they'll all have to suffer through reading it

..
It's a toss up which is worse, reading them or writing them

HoneyAdored · Jan 20, 2016

......

GuiltyPleasure · Jan 20, 2016

count me in please.

HarryHill · Jan 20, 2016

GuiltyPleasure said:
count me in please.

1, 2, 3 allie oxen free

Magnetron · Jan 20, 2016

Mwuahaha

UnderYourSpell · Jan 21, 2016

HarryHill said:
fuck no, it's a villanelle -_-

Oh write a Limerick
.
There was a young man from Caerphilly
Who had an enormous willy.
On Valentine's Day
He was then heard to say
I'll stick it in Sara plus Lily.

HarryHill · Jan 21, 2016

UnderYourSpell said:
Oh write a Limerick
.
There was a young man from Caerphilly
Who had an enormous willy.
On Valentine's Day
He was then heard to say
I'll stick it in Sara plus Lily.

There once was a lady from England
whose mate thought HE ran the kingdom
imagine his surprise
and the shock in his eye
when for Valentine's she crowned him

UnderYourSpell · Jan 22, 2016

HarryHill said:
There once was a lady from England
whose mate thought HE ran the kingdom
imagine his surprise
and the shock in his eye
when for Valentine's she crowned him

Applause

UnderYourSpell · Jan 22, 2016

Are we allowed to write more than one?

Piscator · Jan 22, 2016

UnderYourSpell said:
Are we allowed to write more than one?

Sure why not.

Magnetron · Jan 22, 2016

Having always just winged it, I'm an ignorant savage when it comes to writing traditional forms. I may have to sit this one out

Sinseria · Jan 22, 2016

Magnetron said:
Having always just winged it, I'm an ignorant savage when it comes to writing traditional forms. I may have to sit this one out

Forms are way hella hard compared to free style

I to suck at them heh

Sinseria · Jan 22, 2016

I do want to say these poems being written for this challenge are absolutely stunning

want to comment on each but at work so I'll follow up later

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