Thursday, February 6, 2020

First Friday Terza Rima Challenge

Hello Friday, Hello Poetry!

Writing the World for Kids hosts our round-up today. Do pop in and see all the fun offerings Laura has collected.


We SWAGGERS responded to a challenge to write a Terza Rima.
Oh, my.

                                                                                                     I started out...










Then....
















Ugh! iambic pentameter?
A desperate plea for help...

Dear SWAGGERS,
I'm no good at this.
Help!
               Sincerely,
               Linda


Dear Linda,
Go rogue!
                         
Your friend, Molly

                                                                                    ps: Heidi tutors
                                                                                    pps: Margaret made hers work with MagNOliAS
                                                                                    ppps: I think Catherine might go rogue, too!



Go Rogue, Linda!

I want to write the perfect  terza rima
It’s tough corralling words that move around
I can’t heard them into just one stanza

I  need a dog to chase the good lines down
to bark my drafts within a shearing pen
So I can gather wool to knit some nouns

Knit red, purl blue rhymes every now and then
Needles one and two click upon my lap
A purple poem grows, and I shout AMEN!

Then quickly run back to my dear free verse--
lest this dire terza rima get worse
But then I overhear, duh-DUH-duh-DUH
and...

(c) Linda Mitchell -- who really wishes she had a pen name today



More responses to the terza rima challenge by SWAGGERS




17 comments:

  1. "So I can gather wool to knit some nouns" Love this, Linda! Practicing poems outside of our comfort range really helps us expand our poetry tool kit. Brava!



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  2. I think I may need to research terza rima, but your poem is wonderful to me, Linda! I, too, love that "gather wool to knit some nouns"! (Love the pictured intro, too!)

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  3. Such a fun post. I think you did a swell job with your terza rima. :) Great metaphors.

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  4. You did a great job with this challenge. Your metaphor are fresh and fun! I don't think I've tried a terza rima, maybe someday...

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  5. The terza rima is new to me--it looks like a challege-and one you had fun with (at least on the reading side) despite the challenge. I love that knitting nouns.

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  6. But did you give up? No, you did not. You get an A. :)

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  7. Oh my... That sounds just like me with sonnets! Ex-act-ly like me! And they are still so painful to write... and yet I have four-or-more of them! (Wink-wink.) But I too went rogue on my first completed sonnet; a sonnet to 'the evil vile thing'... the sonnet!😂 Loving the knitting theme to this one. And the humour. So YOU! Looking forward to seeing your next… and next… and next one! xx

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  8. I love your humor-filled introduction, Linda. It made me laugh. You're such a good sport! Like so many others, I'm a big fan of your knitting metaphors. Congratulations on your first terza rima!

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  9. Your introduction is priceless, Linda! You did a fine job venturing outside your comfort zone. "So I can gather wool to knit some nouns" is one of my favorite lines ever.

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  10. I love all your illustrations of the growing frustration. Oh my, was that an iambic rhyme?

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  11. LOL! What a fun terza rima. I also had to laugh about your wish for a pen name. I had one when I was in high school, which should have been for that reason but wasn't! :-)

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  12. Alternating between a happy dance and LOL-ing. Oh my! You ladies sure gave yourselves a challenge. I love this one! -- Christie @ https://wonderingandwondering.wordpress.com/

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  13. Wow--you all set quite a challenge for yourselves. And you've knitted a beauty (no purple prose allowed.) Lots of fun!

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  14. Linda, what a great sense of humor you have. You did a great job at keeping to the form in a whimsical manner.

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  15. Glad you went rogue, Linda - and with a sly sense of humor, too!

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  16. Definitely an A! Thanks for the smiles and the rhymes and the wherewithall to go with it! Love it!

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