Running out of Water

Running out of water

The end of the year
Running out of water
The fire in the sky
What does it matter ?

The bomb cylcone storm
The climate getting hotter
People becoming madder
Nature ready for slaughter

We watch it all unfold
Our leader the chief Plotter
As climate change worsens
Reality to fought her


To me, a new form to play with, but in fact it is an old Irish poetry form.

Guidelines:

It is written in quatrains.
Each stanza has four lines.
The first line has five syllables.
The other three lines have six syllables.

All end words are two syllables.
But - written with the defining features of most Celtic poems, cywddydd (harmony of sound) meaning alliteration, consonance and assonance and dunadh (ending the poem with the same word, phrase or line with which the poem began)

Challenging.

An example:

tattle, by Robert Lee Brewer

Go, tell your father
that you saw your mother
being quite a bother
to your older brother

down by the river
where there is a sliver
of an uncooked liver
that prompted a shiver

before some shaking
without any faking
of news you were breaking
about their scene making.



My try:

Outside it's snowing
one rare, cold wind blowing
people stuck and freezing
wouldn't trade for anything.

Sources:


https://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/breccbairdne/


Brecciaed are:
• written in any number of quatrains.
• syllabic, L1 is 5 syllables and L2,L3,L4 are 6 syllables each.
• rhymed xaxa xbxb etc x being unrhymed.
• all end-words are 2 syllables each.
• written with the defining features of most Celtic poems, cywddydd (harmony of sound) meaning alliteration, consonance and assonance and dunadh (ending the poem with the same word, phrase or line with which the poem began).
x x x (x x)
x x x x (x a)
x x x x (x x)
x x x x (x a)
Easy to Please by Judi Van Gorder
Faces of children
from different places
will wiggle with giggles
to make funny faces.
Pasted from <http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1179>
My thanks to Judi Van Gorder for years of work on the PMO resource.
My example poem
Roses (Breccbairdne)
Roses revealing
appeal to near noses
share scents from their flowers;
thorns safeguard the roses.
© Lawrencealot – August 4, 2014
Visual Template (4 lines or multiple)

Our Camelot: In Memory of Lawrencealot


https://www.writersdigest.com/poetic-asides/breccbairdne-poetic-forms
Poem ©Bianca Boonstra - 2022


Join us over in "The Writer's Cramp" all week for a special holiday edition of Poetry Week with Bianca - write the best poem to her daily prompt and you will win 10,000 GPs!

" Winner and new prompt, due Dec 26-2022" 18 hours 19 minutes 25 seconds

This Poetry week we will start with a form that most of us have not heard of: "Breccbairdne "

To make it difficult, your topic is water.

Minimum of one quatrain, maximum is ten quatrains. (40 lines in total) and make sure to put your line count appear in the forum post.