Poem Prompts for Day 4 of NaPoWriMo and the April PAD Challenge

 

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Heya poetry people! Come share a warm or cold drink with me and listen to a trio of sonatas from our old friend Georg Friedrich Handel while I reveal the prompts I used to pen today's verse.

https://odysee.com/@classical:4/Handel_Trio.Sonatas_Bruggen.Harnoncourt:f?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16

Today's prompt from NaPoWriMo suggests writing a triolet.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-four-11/

A triolet is an eight-line poem. All the lines are in iambic tetramenter (for a total of eight syllables per line), and the first, fourth, and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines. This means that the poem begins and ends with the same couplet. Beyond this, there is a tight rhyme scheme (helped along by the repetition of lines) — ABaAabAB.

Here’s an example by Thomas Hardy:

Birds at Winter

Around the house the flakes fly faster,

And all the berries now are gone

From holly and cotoneaster

Around the house. The flakes fly! – faster

Shutting indoors the crumb-outcaster

We used to see upon the lawn

Around the house. The flakes fly faster

And all the berries now are gone!

I don't know about the rest of you, but I really needed that example from Thomas Hardy! Otherwise, I might just say "sod it, free verse it is!"

Well whaddaya know? It's twofer Tuesday on a Tuesday at the old April PAD lounge.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-april-pad-challenge-day-4

Today's prompt asks us to write a dream and/or reality poem.

I cooked up a swell little number called Dreams of Disaster.

I wish I could share it with you now, but since I'm writing these poems for potential inclusion in the Soul Ink anthology from Dragon Soul Press, I'm afraid doing so is a no-go. Fear not, I am also compiling all the poems I create this month into a volume to be published in the not terribly distant future.

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

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