This Sweet Sixteen poem was written for my other grand-daughter who is turning 16 soon.
I am going to use this for her birthday card.
This is my first time using the Minute form and it was quite a challenge because of the rhyme and syllable count.
I don’t know why it is called “Minute” poem! It certainly took me more than a minute to write this poem! 🙂
Original Poetry by Leona J. Atkinson ©2015
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This is kind of a fun little form. I decided to try this form (that I had never tried before) because upon learning that its name meant “fifteen”, I immediately thought of my grand-daughter who just turned 15 years old, and so, I wanted to write a poem for her 15th birthday card! 🙂
“The English word quinzaine come from the French word qunize, meaning fifteen. A quinzaine is an unrhymed verse of fifteen syllables. These syllables are distributed among three lines so that there are seven syllables in the first line, five in the second line and three in the third line (7/5/3). The first line makes a statement. The next two lines ask a question relating to that statement.”
( from Shadow Poetry—http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/quinzaine.html )
Happy New Year everyone! I am an optimist! Therefore, I am looking forward to this New Year and all the new challenges it may bring! To start it off, and add to the fun of creating poems, I have decided to challenge myself to write some poetry using new forms that I have not yet tried. Today I have chosen the form “Sedoka”. I hope you enjoy!
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 