A poetry challenge that went a little overboard. |
Write: A spur-of-the-moment rhyme from one of the following prompts: The words lavender, broomstick, and cauldron must be included. You hear a scratching at your window pane in the middle of the night. Write about loving someone or something. If you get inspired and want to go crazy with it, you can add a complete poem. Hmmm... okay. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Her Dream Irreverent This scratching on my window pane will surely make me go insane! A monster who is wont to bite my head off on this awful night must be the fiend, the evil one. She's here to see the deed is done! I just know it! It must have been a dream I had. I wasn't really going mad. I'll wake my love and tell him so. Where is that man? Where did he go? And why's that bangled broomstick here? My head is spinning; nothing's clear! I am below it! I wander to his writing desk to pen a note and in it ask about the mark of lavender that's smudged onto his calendar, that scent that from the cauldron lofts and curls in smoky cloudless wafts into my nostrils. I loved him, but he loved the witch. I'm shrouded now with one last stitch. That noise that jarred me in the night and gave me all but my last fright was not a faultless dream inspired. It heralded my life, retired. I join the fossils. Form: A Triple Triple-Couplet Thorn (I made it up: Three stanzas consisting of three masculine couplets in any iambic meter, one 4 syllable feminine thorn and three 5 syllable feminine thorns. I think.) |