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Running out of water The end of the year Running out of water The fire in the sky What does it matter ? The bomb cylcone storm The climate getting hotter People becoming madder Nature ready for slaughter We watch it all unfold Our leader the chief Plotter As climate change worsens Reality to fought her To me, a new form to play with, but in fact it is an old Irish poetry form. Guidelines: It is written in quatrains. Each stanza has four lines. The first line has five syllables. The other three lines have six syllables. All end words are two syllables. But - written with the defining features of most Celtic poems, cywddydd (harmony of sound) meaning alliteration, consonance and assonance and dunadh (ending the poem with the same word, phrase or line with which the poem began) Challenging. An example: tattle, by Robert Lee Brewer Go, tell your father that you saw your mother being quite a bother to your older brother down by the river where there is a sliver of an uncooked liver that prompted a shiver before some shaking without any faking of news you were breaking about their scene making. My try: Outside it's snowing one rare, cold wind blowing people stuck and freezing wouldn't trade for anything. Sources: https://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/breccbairdne/ Brecciaed are: • written in any number of quatrains. • syllabic, L1 is 5 syllables and L2,L3,L4 are 6 syllables each. • rhymed xaxa xbxb etc x being unrhymed. • all end-words are 2 syllables each. • written with the defining features of most Celtic poems, cywddydd (harmony of sound) meaning alliteration, consonance and assonance and dunadh (ending the poem with the same word, phrase or line with which the poem began). x x x (x x) x x x x (x a) x x x x (x x) x x x x (x a) Easy to Please by Judi Van Gorder Faces of children from different places will wiggle with giggles to make funny faces. Pasted from <http://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/index.php?showtopic=1179> My thanks to Judi Van Gorder for years of work on the PMO resource. My example poem Roses (Breccbairdne) Roses revealing appeal to near noses share scents from their flowers; thorns safeguard the roses. © Lawrencealot – August 4, 2014 Visual Template (4 lines or multiple) Our Camelot: In Memory of Lawrencealot https://www.writersdigest.com/poetic-asides/breccbairdne-poetic-forms Poem ©Bianca Boonstra - 2022 Join us over in "The Writer's Cramp" all week for a special holiday edition of Poetry Week with Bianca - write the best poem to her daily prompt and you will win 10,000 GPs! " Winner and new prompt, due Dec 26-2022" 18 hours 19 minutes 25 seconds This Poetry week we will start with a form that most of us have not heard of: "Breccbairdne " To make it difficult, your topic is water. Minimum of one quatrain, maximum is ten quatrains. (40 lines in total) and make sure to put your line count appear in the forum post. |