Showing posts with label Challenge No 38. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Challenge No 38. Show all posts
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Being the Perfect Ex, Challenge No 38 - further stimulus - a Quatern (poem) and a Microw Fiction call for submissions - prose or poetry...
Hi all!
So this Friday's prompt is Being the Perfect Ex. Further to the extra stimulus material on our Challenges Page, I found a poem, a Quatern, which got me thinking on this Perfect Ex thing. I just happened to read the Prologue to Jodi Picoult's Mercy this morning which was all about selling her partner's clothes in a garage sale unbeknownst to him, so I thought well, is there a message here to share with you?
A quatern is a French poetic form comprised of four quatrains (four-line stanzas) sixteen lines in all. It has no rules for rhymes or iambics (but each line should contain eight syllables) and it repeats a refrain throughout the poem but with a different pattern and syllable count. Varying the punctuation makes it more interesting.
Purple Heart
I gave away your clothes last week.
A truck rolled up and took six bags
to some forsaken warehouse where
they'd be passed on to people who
cannot afford to buy them new.
I gave away your clothes. Last week
I couldn't stand the closet full
of coats and dresses, hung like ghosts
and so I yanked them off their racks,
stuffed plastic bags with memories
I gave away. Your clothes, last week,
went to a world that never knew
how fine you were, how beautiful
in that red dress, that silken blouse
some stranger walks the street in now.
I gave away your clothes last week.
For further information on the quatern, go to Poetic Asides blog @ http://bit.ly/spa5aY.
I can't wait to see what you'll all come up with for Friday's prompt. There are so many ways to demonstrate PERFECT!
Linky goes up Thursday AUS time...
PS: Found a great Flash Fiction/Poetry call for submissions for Microw Fiction. 1,000 words of prose or a maximum of 3 poems. Go here for the guidelines...
So this Friday's prompt is Being the Perfect Ex. Further to the extra stimulus material on our Challenges Page, I found a poem, a Quatern, which got me thinking on this Perfect Ex thing. I just happened to read the Prologue to Jodi Picoult's Mercy this morning which was all about selling her partner's clothes in a garage sale unbeknownst to him, so I thought well, is there a message here to share with you?
A quatern is a French poetic form comprised of four quatrains (four-line stanzas) sixteen lines in all. It has no rules for rhymes or iambics (but each line should contain eight syllables) and it repeats a refrain throughout the poem but with a different pattern and syllable count. Varying the punctuation makes it more interesting.
Purple Heart
I gave away your clothes last week.
A truck rolled up and took six bags
to some forsaken warehouse where
they'd be passed on to people who
cannot afford to buy them new.
I gave away your clothes. Last week
I couldn't stand the closet full
of coats and dresses, hung like ghosts
and so I yanked them off their racks,
stuffed plastic bags with memories
I gave away. Your clothes, last week,
went to a world that never knew
how fine you were, how beautiful
in that red dress, that silken blouse
some stranger walks the street in now.
I gave away your clothes last week.
For further information on the quatern, go to Poetic Asides blog @ http://bit.ly/spa5aY.
I can't wait to see what you'll all come up with for Friday's prompt. There are so many ways to demonstrate PERFECT!
Linky goes up Thursday AUS time...
PS: Found a great Flash Fiction/Poetry call for submissions for Microw Fiction. 1,000 words of prose or a maximum of 3 poems. Go here for the guidelines...
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