Creativity Verses Form ~ Violette

David  of The Skeptic’s Kaddish and Sangeetha of Mindfills began a fun poetry partnership in April. We celebrated writing together a 100 verse renga, The Hyakuin.  And within days, decided we would absolutely love to continue our writing collaboration and what has grown to be a warm friendship with new poetry projects.

We decided to explore poetry forms. A to Z. Each week one of us chooses a poetry form the other responds to. We completed our first series Form verses creativity in June ’22. And we’re now on to the next set of poetry forms A to Z ~ Creativity Verses Form. We added a little twist for version2.0, with a key word starting with the same letter.

For ‘V’, Sangeetha selected the ‘Violette’ form and the keyword ‘Vintage’.

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V: Violette

Sangeetha’s Violette

Old wine is much revered
In gold caskets preserved
Never shaken or stirred
Sublime... you see?

Mint green E-type Jaguar
That treasured vintage car
E for Envy... by far
Won't you agree?

If age is a big plus
Antiques are fabulous
And years make you famous...
What about me?

David’s Violette

Of singular mintage,
Past forty, I'm vintage.
My gut gets poor windage-
With age, I've slowed.

The old songs I enjoy
And dad jokes I employ
My young child much annoy-
Yes... yes, I know.

I don't aim to be cool,
Nor in-crowd to befool;
But no punk in high school
Can. touch. my. flow.

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Violette?

• Stanzaic: written in any number of quatrains;
• Syllabic: 6/6/6/4 syllables per line;
• Rhymed: feminine rhyme used aaab cccb dddb etc.
  • ‘b’ is a linking rhyme from stanza to stanza.

Read all the poems in our series ~ Creativity Verses Form where we explore poetry forms

• A ~ Alliterisen Alternatives
• B ~ Bragi Books
• C ~ Cadae Crisis
• D~ Dodoitsu Desire
• E ~ Emmet Elves
• F~ Fold Friend
• G~ Golda Gravity
• H~ Harrisham Hope
• I ~ Inverted Refrain Imagination
• J ~ Jram Jubilee
• K ~ Kōel Kismet
• L ~ Lai Love
• M ~ Monometric Motivation
• N ~ Novo Otto Night
• O ~ Ovillejo Origins
• P ~ Purely Hopeful Poetry
• Q ~ Quatern Quiet
• R ~ Raay Roots
• S ~ Septanelle Smiles
• T ~ Trianglet Time
• U ~ Ukiah Underwear
• V ~ Violette Vintage

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