Day 7 Prompt: Villain
Form: Cywydd Llosgyrnog
“Reasons”
Every morning light shines on all
of us. When we rise or we fall.
Nothing calls us to the light
or the darkness except the heart.
Broken pieces is were we start,
falling apart, life’s true rite.
And the sunrises like any day
before. With tired eyes we say,
“Happy New Year, may this be
the year you find prosperity.”
Knowing joy is a rarity,
irony wide like a sea.
Poetic Form #72: Cywydd Llosgyrnog
The Welsh form, Cywydd Llosgyrnog, is a syllabic-based form with internal
rhymes. The structure has six-lines. Lines 1, 2, 4, and 5 have 8 syllables with
lines 1 and 2 rhyming as well as lines 4 and 5. Then lines 3 and 6 have 7 syllables
and rhyme with each other. Also, line 3 has an internal rhyme with lines 1 and 2.
Line 6 has an internal rhyme with lines 4 and 5. The internal rhymes can be
flexible on which syllable it lands in the middle of the line. It would look like this:
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xxxxxxxa
xxxaxxb
xxxxxxxc
xxxxxxxc
xxxcxxb
