A Kyrielle poem (week 29) about a youth recreational soccer league. |
A Kyrielle poem written for week 29 Poetic Explorations. The shrieks and screams, they fill the air, a running children hurricane. Their parents shout, no laissez-faire. The soccer season's now a-foot. The weather's cool, the kids want more, oblivious to falling rain. The kids rush on intent to score. The soccer season's now a-foot. With gale force winds nets disappear, It matters not, no kids refrain, As mothers dream of Tide or Cheer, The soccer season's now a-foot. Author's Notes: A Kyrielle is a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains (a stanza consisting of 4 lines), and each quatrain contains a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing as the last line of each stanza). Each line within the poem consists of only eight syllables. There is no limit to the amount of stanzas a Kyrielle may have, but three is considered the accepted minimum. While popular rhyming schemes for a Kyrielle are: aabB, ccbB, ddbB, with B being the repeated line, or abaB, cbcB, dbdB, my poem uses a different pattern: axaZ, bxbZ, cxcZ with Z being the repeated line. The rhyme pattern is completely up to the poet. |