Day 9 Prompt: Persona
Form: Hir a Thoddaid
“Old Metal Slide”
I hear you clambering to the top,
go down 540 nonstop.
Laughter filling the sky, a backdrop
to a joyful moment. I eavesdrop
on your conversation, father’s love for
growing daughters, no need to stop.
There sits a little blue house at the center
of everywhere. The sidewalk curving around
a cul-de-sac named for someone they never
knew. At night the lights cut squares on the dark ground.
Shadows dash about, laughter echos off walls.
The door opens for friends, on the floor coats fall.
In the morning, the smell of coffee awakes
a little blue house where love mends all mistakes.
Poetic Form #89: Rispetto
The rispetto form is from 14th century Italy. There are two common variations:
Rispetto #1: comprises two quatrains written in iambic tetrameter (8 syllables).
Rispetto #2: composed of 8 hendecasyllabic (11-syllable) lines--
usually one stanza. (Option I wrote my poem in.*)
There are also two common rhyme schemes: ababccdd*
or abababcc (older scheme).
