Hello, beautiful readers! For this week's dVerse MTB: The Sparrow as Starlet, Laura Bloomsbury encourages us to write "an invented stanzaic form created by Kathrine Sparrow that she calls a variation of the Swap Quatrain." This form contains a stanza of six lines. Each line must have eight syllables with an end rhyme scheme of BbabaA. Line 1 and line 6 it written in two hemistichs, which means the line splits in two with commas and are inverted versions of each other.
have no regrets, just lessons learned
consequences were all well earned
idyllic dreams, changing mindsets
experience can't be returned
wisdom comes through many vignettes
just lessons learned, have no regrets
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what a wise and upbeat Sparrowlet Yvette
ReplyDeleteThank you, Laura! I appreciate you stopping by. :-)
DeleteLots of rules with this one, but you pulled it off, Yvette. That echo of the first line at the end worked perfectly. Loved the wisdom.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Diana! I appreciate your visit. :-)
DeleteYes there are a lot of rules to this form but you have made light work of them Yvette...
ReplyDeleteThank you for such a kind compliment! :-)
DeleteYou and Edith Piaf with no regrets!
ReplyDeleteI had no idea who Edith Piaf was, Shay! So, I looked her up. To my surprise, her nickname was the "Little Sparrow." What a coincidence our host for this prompt has Sparrow as her last name and many people wrote poems about sparrows. Crazy! Thanks for stopping by and commenting! :-)
DeleteNo truer words, as they say. Life is a cornucopia of experience, and to judge any piece of it unsavory, it to degrade the entire experience. The world needs more people like you in it Yvette.
ReplyDeleteAw, thank you, Violet! I appreciate your visit and kind words. :-)
DeleteI enjoyed the wisdom of your poem, Yvette, and the end rhymes. I will remember these lines:
ReplyDelete‘wisdom comes through many vignettes
just lessons learned, have no regrets’.
Thank you, Kim! I'm so happy you connected with those lines. Thanks for sharing! :-)
DeleteIt would be fun to sit and contemplate my many vignettes (love how you used the word) in this perfectly penned Soarrowlet.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Helen! I appreciate your visit. :-)
DeleteTrue, regrets are a waste of time. 💖
ReplyDeleteYes, they are! They just drain us of energy and keep our focus on the past instead of the present and future. Thanks for chiming in, Jules! :-)
DeleteYvette, this flows so smoothly and holds such wisdom.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lisa! I appreciate your kind words. :-)
DeleteAs long as we are not crushed by the lessons it's all right with me.
ReplyDeleteTrue, Bjorn! I've had some crushing lessons that took quite some time to recover from. I could have done without them, for sure. But reflecting on who I am today, I wonder what I may lose of my identity if I had not experience such horrible moments. Maybe I would be a better version, maybe not. The 'what if' game changes nothing, so I choose to accept the lessons and have no regrets. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! :-)
DeleteA positive outlook.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Melissa! I appreciate you stopping by. :-)
DeleteWise words, Yvette and having a positive outlook never hurts! Beautifully done.
ReplyDeleteVery true, Punam! Thanks for stopping by! :-)
DeleteExcellent write Yvette. Thinking positively is something often easier said than done. We strive.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Shaun! I appreciate your visit. :-)
DeleteWisdom hard-earned but earned all the same. Great use of the form, Yvette.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dora! I appreciate you stopping by. :-)
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