If you are a regular at our pub, you know the drill. For those new to Q, write a verse of exact 44 words (excluding the title) using pepper or any form of the word like peppering, peppered or peppermint.
Salt and pepper on your food,
Should be applied according to taste.
To presume regularity totally rude.
Salt and pepper on your food.
A restaurant argument once ensued,
All civility abruptly erased!
Salt and pepper on your food,
Should be applied according to taste.
44-words
A Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. It is similar to the Kyrielle and the Retourne. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. The first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, third line of stanza three, and fourth line of stanza four.
Manhood belongs not to the meek.
All honor is won at a cost.
A reticent life unworthy.
All you value easily lost.
I was once unsure just like you.
Manhood belongs not to the meek.
So, stand tall when facing this world.
Cowards never find what they seek.
My hands are broken, my back is bent,
And my job is most nearly done.
Manhood belongs not to the meek.
Time to fight your battles, my son.
Those gentle eyes and chiseled chin,
Are signs that you’ll reach your own peak.
Kind men guard the common ‘good’, ‘Cuz,
Manhood belongs not to the meek.
https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/25/poetry-form-quatern/
Use PET as your inspiration this week.
Never having a pet leaves a void in the human heart.
Encounters with our immortal souls go otherwise unnoticed.
‘All–Knowing eyes‘ are available only to God and our pets.
Our word is “ART” today.
There are:
Being a parent is an extraordinary artform,
You get an opportunity to add uniqueness to the world.
It’s unfathomable that anyone could think of it otherwise.
So, I challenge you to take this familiar object and theme—go beyond cliché and write something unique (in 44 words). Mirror, mirrored, mirroring—use some form of the word mirror in your poem.
Peeking over the wooden rail
Moments after we set sail.
A reflected visage made me wail.
Decades are cruel, I confess.
A mirror image I didn’t know.
Lay atop the surface below.
Seeing myself a mighty blow.
When did I become such a mess?!
44-words
https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/15/quadrille-mirror-mirror-on-the-wall/
Coercion or Change
If change is too extreme it will not last.
Coercion bears no trust to forge a deal.
Movement behooves concessions with the past.
If change is too extreme it will not last.
Brutal shifts arouse a stubbornness aghast.
Forfeiting our foundations makes us reel.
If change is too extreme it will not last.
Coercion bears no trust to forge a deal.
https://livingpoetry.net/2023/05/15/monday-poetry-prompt-change-deal-extreme/
Happy Monday!!
The word for today is LUSH.
A man wore his hair super lush.
Made those ladies’ passions to gush.
His crossed eyes were well hid.
Carried fat ’round his mid.
Thoughts of trimming it? He had not a rush.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2023/05/08/rdp-monday-lush/
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