CLOSED - The Ultimate Poetry Challenge

Form: Rondel  

Number of Lines: 13 lines

Rules:
A French form consisting of 13 lines: two quatrains and a quintet, rhyming as follows:

ABba
abAB
abbaA.

The capital letters are the rhymes.


Example:
A Rondel for Margarita
Copyright © 2004 Gail Kavanagh

On the carousel, on a summer's day,
As the rest of the fairground goes gliding by,
We coast together, now low, now high,
But how quickly the moment slips away.

She laughs at the music, elfin and fey,
She laughs for joy at the sapphire sky,
On the carousel, on a summer's day,
As the rest of the fairground goes gliding by.

How sweet her delight in simple play,
Someday, without me, she'll take to the sky,
Brave little fledgling, ready to fly.
We must hold these moments while we may
On the carousel, on a summer's day.


Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.