My visit to a fair

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Colorful flags waving in air.
Beautiful women parading.
Cheerful children frisking about.
Plentiful fun for relishing.

Glassy bangles put up for sale.
Shiny spangles of clothes sparkle.
Fancy trinkets allure women.
Jazzy, plastic playthings twinkle.

Hoping to have fun I visit there.
Stopping here and there, at the stalls.
Hopping to counters, for tickets.
Bopping on down to get cornballs.

Paltry sum debars me to buy
costly items but I purchase
proudly a tawdry ring which shines
brightly, like gold, in my showcase.

Form:Lento


A Lento consists of two quatrains with a fixed rhyme scheme of abcb, defe as the second and forth lines of each stanza must rhyme. To take it a step further, but not required, try rhyming the first and third lines as well as the second and forth lines of each stanza in this rhyming pattern: abab, cdcd. The fun part of this poem is thrown in here as all the FIRST words of each verse should rhyme. There is no fixed syllable structure to the Lento, but keeping a good, flowing rhythm is recommended.

For an added challenge, one may write a four-verse Lento and call it a Double Lento, or a six-versed Lento to become a Triple Lento.