Literary Impulse & Paper Poetry ‘Eudaimonia’ Prompt Submission
Buoy Bell Gongs
Eudaimonia — In A Rondelet

Buoy bell gongs tungsten tone untethered in space, Buoy bell gongs axis vibrates life everlong; Glass flutes chime in mother’s embrace; Tradewinds of stars light up her face, Buoy bell gongs
Josie Elbiry, 2021
A rondelet is a French form of short poetry. It consists of seven lines. The refrains - lines 1, 3 and 7 - repeat and are four syllables each. Lines 2, 4, 5 and 6 are all eight syllables in trochaic tetrameter. The rhyme scheme is ABA ABBA.
Trochaic is to French as iambic is to English, and putting the stress on the first syllable is indeed quite unnatural to those of us who’ve attempted rondelets in English. Alas, herein is my second attempt. Now that I have some experience, I see clearly that I wrote the first one in iambic pentameter:
Many thanks to Viraji Ogodapola for her invitation to write for the prompt: Eudaimonia
