The Friday Fling Writes Rousing Rondelets!
Friday Fling #270 for Febuary 7th 2014
This week we’re featuring not so much a topic as a format.
From Shadowpoetry.com:
The Rondelet is a French form consisting
of a single septet with two rhymes and one refrain: AbAabbA.
The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats.
The refrain is written in tetra-syllabic (four syllables)
or dimeter and the other lines are twice as long – octasyllabic or tetrameter. (eight or ten syllables)
Such Happiness
Such happiness
Has crept up on me without sound,
Such happiness
Has touched my heart with soft caress;
All life’s sharp corners have gone round,
Since I’ve met you, my friend, I’ve found
Such happiness.
Copyright © 2003 Linda Newman
The example will also serve as our theme –
try to write yours on a similar note,
about something or someone who made/makes you happy.
This week the Friday Fling writes Rondelets
about what/who makes us happy!
Be sure to save time to read and comment
happily on your fellow Pals’ Rondelets.
Then go get happy this weekend!
Welcome to The Friday Fling’s Rondelet Riot! Pull up an eight beat line and see what your muse can fill it with. Then six more lines and you have a happy Rondelet! 😀 :love:
HAPPINESS IS A WARM PUPPY
A warm puppy.
Peanuts’ Snoopy made us happy.
A warm puppy.
Nothing, not even a guppy
or L’il Abner’s ancient pappy
could reverse our feeling crappy
A warm puppy.
Rondelet Copyright February 6th 2014 RGD
This is so not The Rondelet form .. But gave it me best shot at .. Will work on it .. Smiles .. 🙂
HAPPINESS FOUND
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I can endue great happiness without the sound
This happiness
Such a feelin that I can so caress
While all other parts of world goes round
This peace within me I have so found
This happiness
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Written By: Bettie Davis ————————————– © February o6 , 2o14