{"id":85757,"date":"2012-04-05T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T01:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/85757\/friday-fling-poetically-paints-spring-pastels\/"},"modified":"2012-04-05T21:00:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T01:00:41","slug":"friday-fling-poetically-paints-spring-pastels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/85757\/friday-fling-poetically-paints-spring-pastels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friday Fling Poetically Paints Spring Pastels!"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Friday Fling #175 April 6th 2012<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

April is the first full month of Spring, and one thing Spring makes you think of is…<\/font>pastels<\/font>. The soft shades of tulips and lilacs, the back petals of daffodils, the in between reds and purples of pflox, etc. The shades of green and red in tree buds. Oh yeah and Easter Egg colors, after you or the Easter Bunny colors them! And Easter dresses, hats, ties and such!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

What do those shades signify and evoke for you? How about expressing that in a Pantoum? <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

WARNING: Pantoums are challenging. Shadow Poetry notes: <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The pantoum consists of a series of quatrains rhyming ABAB in which the second and fourth lines of a quatrain recur as the first and third lines in the succeeding quatrain; each quatrain introduces a new second rhyme as BCBC, CDCD. The first line of the series recurs as the last line of the closing quatrain, and third line of the poem recurs as the second line of the closing quatrain, rhyming ZAZA.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The design is simple:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Line 1
\nLine 2
\nLine 3
\nLine 4<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Line 5 (repeat of line 2)
\nLine 6
\nLine 7 (repeat of line 4)
\nLine 8<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Continue with as many stanzas as you wish, but the ending stanzathen repeats the second and fourth lines of the previous stanza (as its first and third lines), and also repeats the third line of the first stanza, as its second line, and the first line of the first stanza as its fourth. So the first line of the poem is also the last.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Last stanza:<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Line 2 of previous stanza
\nLine 3 of first stanza
\nLine 4 of previous stanza
\nLine 1 of first stanza<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

It All Started With A Packet of Seeds<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

It all started with a packet of seeds,
\nTo be planted with tenderness and care,
\nAt the base of an Oak, free from all weeds.
\nThey will produce such beauty and flare.<\/font><\/p>\n

To be planted with tenderness and care,
\nA cacophony of colorful flowers,
\nThey will produce such beauty and flare.
\nWith an aroma that can continue for hours.<\/font><\/p>\n

A cacophony of colorful flowers,
\nBright oranges with yellows and reds,
\nWith an aroma that can continue for hours,
\nDelivered from their fresh flower beds.<\/font><\/p>\n

Bright oranges with yellows and reds,
\nAt the base of an oak, free from all weeds,
\nDelivered from their fresh flower beds,
\nAt all started with a packet of seeds.<\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2001 Sally Ann Roberts<\/font><\/p>\n

This week the Friday Fling Paints Spring Pastels in Pantoums!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Be sure to save time to read and comment colorfully on your fellow Pals’ Pantoum Pastellery. Then go enjoy the Pastels of the first full weekend of April!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Fickle Finger of Fate Award for\u00a0 March 30th<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Congratulations Angel Love!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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