CPC POETRY CHALLENGE PREVIEW: The Friday Fling Writes Summer Romance Love Sonnets!
This is a Special preview for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge. Poems should be posted on the CPC blog after the challenge opens Thursday evening at 8 PM EDT.
Friday Fling #185 June 22nd 2012
As we move officially into summer one of the first things which comes to mind is – summer romance!
Well maybe not necessarily. But it’s an attractive topic, and even if romance is not our thing at the moment, we all have memories about it.
What and who does the phrase “summer romance” bring to your mind and heart? How about expressing that in a Love Sonnet!
Love Sonnets are usually directed to a lover or about a lover, the qualities for which they are loved, etc. Shadow Poetry notes that:
A Sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines (iambic pentameter) with a particular rhyming scheme:
Examples of a rhyming scheme:
#1) abab cdcd efef gg
#2) abba cddc effe gg
#3) abba abba cdcd cd
A Shakespearean (English) sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet, and rhymes abab cdcd efef gg.
Usually, English and Italian Sonnets have 10 syllables per line.
If this format seems a bit intimidating, just think how proud you will be to have written one!
What would make your love sonnet extra fun would be if you use Shakespearean language in it! We’ll leave it up to you to add whatever you think of as Shakespearean.
This week the Friday Fling celebrates summer romance by going all hoity-toity high-falutin’ with Shakespearean-style Love Sonnets!
Be sure to save time to read and comment lovingly on your fellow Pals’ Shakespearean sonnetizations. Then go forth ye merry maids and whatchacallems and romance the first weekend of summer!
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for June 15th
Congratulations Dee!
WoW Beautiful , romantic graphics to get ones started Beautiful blog looking forward to the Love Sonnets , shared :love: :love: Woo Hoo Congratulations Dee :love: :love: :love:
Here’s mine. It includes an extra introductory stanza because – well because I miscounted and wrote one too many stanzas!
ANTECEDENTS
While pondering what signs come from above
to represent importances in life,
methinks the rose resembles lady love
signifying she who would be my wife.
MY LOVE IS LIKE A ROSE
Up from a seedling watered in sunlight
grows foliage and stems with thorns to warn:
this floral specimen no one should slight
or thy might wish to never have been born.
From out the thorny bush there grows a bud,
which being tightly packed shows hopeful shine.
It reassures against the chance of dud,
when blossoming brings color, fragrance fine.
And sure enough, great promise is fulfilled!
when blooming out reveals such interlace
of petals delicate as could be willed.
Naught but divinity could mold that face!
My fingers lightly rub each petal’s red,
while mind and heart to lovers’ joy are wed.
Copyright June 20th 2012 RGD