My Poetic Latticework

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1. Angel Oak tour: https://www.angeloaktree.com/virtual-tour-video

2. Form: Trolaan

Number of Lines: 16 lines, 4 quatrains

Rules:
Each quatrain begins with the same letter and has the following rhyme scheme: abab

Starting with the second stanza you use the second letter of the first line of the first stanza to write the second each line beginning with that letter.

On the third stanza you will use the second letter on the first line of the second stanza and write the third each line beginning with that letter.

On the fourth stanza you will use the second letter on the first line of the third stanza and write the fourth each line beginning with that letter.

Rhyme Scheme:
abab

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

Example:
Distraught Blessings

Desire the sound or hope,
deluding minds in darkness.
Daunting though its scope,
deluged now with the access.

Elope into the morrow,
envelope me with song.
Enclose me now in sorrow
easing against the throng.

Longing for succulent prospect,
laying waste to eager night,
Lopsided in neglect,
listless with delight.

Only now will I protest,
owning nothing less.
Opening now I detest,
one more time to bless….

Copyright © 2008 Valerie Peterson Brown