Lauren Hynde
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Here's a simple one:
Write a love terzanelle¹, and make sure the word valentine is in there somewhere.
You don't need to be participating in Survivor to take this challenge. Although you really should sign up for Survivor if you haven't yet!
If you are participating in Survivor, for your poem to be eligible for points under the Special Bonus Rounds heading, it needs to be submitted to Literotica.com and be posted between 01/29/2009 and 02/25/2009.
Feel free to use this thread to workshop this challenge, to banter about this challenge, to post links to your submissions to this challenge, and to give your opinion on poems submitted to this challenge.
¹ The terzanelle is a poetry form which combines the villanelle and the terza rima. It is nineteen lines total, with five triplets and a concluding quatrain. Each triplet has a rhyme scheme of aba, and the middle line becomes the 3rd line of the next triplet, therefore providing that triplet's rhyme. The closing quatrain has a rhyme scheme of abab, and it repeats the middle line of the last triplet as its 3rd line, as well as the 1st and 3rd lines of the initial triplet as its 2nd and 4th lines. Lines can have any meter, as long as it is maintained consistently throughout.
Write a love terzanelle¹, and make sure the word valentine is in there somewhere.
You don't need to be participating in Survivor to take this challenge. Although you really should sign up for Survivor if you haven't yet!
If you are participating in Survivor, for your poem to be eligible for points under the Special Bonus Rounds heading, it needs to be submitted to Literotica.com and be posted between 01/29/2009 and 02/25/2009.Feel free to use this thread to workshop this challenge, to banter about this challenge, to post links to your submissions to this challenge, and to give your opinion on poems submitted to this challenge.
¹ The terzanelle is a poetry form which combines the villanelle and the terza rima. It is nineteen lines total, with five triplets and a concluding quatrain. Each triplet has a rhyme scheme of aba, and the middle line becomes the 3rd line of the next triplet, therefore providing that triplet's rhyme. The closing quatrain has a rhyme scheme of abab, and it repeats the middle line of the last triplet as its 3rd line, as well as the 1st and 3rd lines of the initial triplet as its 2nd and 4th lines. Lines can have any meter, as long as it is maintained consistently throughout.
This is the moment when shadows gather [a]
under the elms, the cornices and eaves.
This is the center of thunderweather. [a]
The birds are quiet among these white leaves
where wind stutters, starts, then moves steadily [c]
under the elms, the cornices, and eaves--
these are our voices speaking guardedly [c]
about the sky, of the sheets of lightning [d]
where wind stutters, starts, then moves steadily [c]
into our lungs, across our lips, tightening [d]
our throats. Our eyes are speaking in the dark [e]
about the sky, of the sheets of lightening [d]
that illuminate moments. In the stark [e]
shades we inhibit, there are no words for [f]
our throats. Our eyes are speaking in the dark [e]
of things we cannot say, cannot ignore. [f]
This is the moment when shadows gather, [a]
shades we inhibit. There are no words, for [f]
this is the center of thunderweather. [a]
under the elms, the cornices and eaves.
This is the center of thunderweather. [a]
The birds are quiet among these white leaves
where wind stutters, starts, then moves steadily [c]
under the elms, the cornices, and eaves--
these are our voices speaking guardedly [c]
about the sky, of the sheets of lightning [d]
where wind stutters, starts, then moves steadily [c]
into our lungs, across our lips, tightening [d]
our throats. Our eyes are speaking in the dark [e]
about the sky, of the sheets of lightening [d]
that illuminate moments. In the stark [e]
shades we inhibit, there are no words for [f]
our throats. Our eyes are speaking in the dark [e]
of things we cannot say, cannot ignore. [f]
This is the moment when shadows gather, [a]
shades we inhibit. There are no words, for [f]
this is the center of thunderweather. [a]
