“UNCOMMON POETIC FORM” PROMPT
Sweetie, I’m So Glad You’re Here!
A dizain
I celebrate EBDT’s birthday! Helpful critiques of my writing she brings, Chatting on couch, soul blue eyes are her way. “Tell me anything you want to,” she sings, “tragic, nostalgic…” my feelings find wings. She washes my glasses, measures my bed, takes me to thrift store, World Market instead to help me make a home from empty space, “An orange sun mat, your colors! Let’s spread in the kitchen...it looks great in your place!”
“Sweetie”, she says, “I’m so glad you’re here!” “Thanks, EBDT, your kind deeds repair.”
By our actions we reveal what is growing in the heart. Actions are mirrors of the soul.” ― Abdu’l-Bahá
I just heard about the dizain through reading a “desort” by Frank Larkin in response to the “Uncommon Poetic Forms” prompt from Somsubhra Banerjee at Literary Impulse.
From Somsubhra’s article: The dizain was a favorite of the fifteenth and sixteenth-century French poets, but it has also been employed in English by the likes of Philip Sidney and John Keats. Here are the basic rules:
One ten-line stanza Ten syllables per line Employs the following rhyme scheme: ababbccdcd.
After my first attempt at writing a dizain I counted the lines — oops, twelve instead of ten… I let the last two lines drift a couple of spaces after the ten as the poem didn’t seem finished without them.
🎵 Reader, Thank you for reading about my simple and profoundly tender friend EBDT. Gratitude to Somsubhra Dutta for publishing my first piece for “Literary Impulse” and for stretching my creative hips through “Uncommom Poetic Forms”.
