Words beneath a dappled sky

The end of poetic forms starting with the letter C! Hope you enjoy.

Chydedd Fer:
When going to sit, please have a care -
The cat has dibs on every chair.
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Chydedd Hir: Cat Spot
( Definitely there )
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Chydedd Naw Ban: Popsicle-Toes
( We anticipate cold kitty-toes )
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Cyrch a Chwta: Garden Panther
( In jungle depths, this cat mine )
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Cywdd Deuair Hyrion: Green Patch
Early on the seed was sown -
Refreshed lawn of great remown.
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Cywdd Llosgyrnog: Fragrant
( Lavender, the mints and sages )
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Six more, mostly small again and with a wide variety.

Chanso: Crocosmia
( leaning remnants gold declare )
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Chant: Beginning
( Praise the Creator of climbing vines )
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Chantey (Shanty): Squintin' Tom
( He's Squintin' Tom, the Captain's cat )
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Choka: Choka Full-a Weeds
( Bindweed, pigweed and horsetail )
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Choriambic: Chickweed
( tenacious and tiny seeds )
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Cinquains: Spring
( Tips of crocus )
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And one more dose to finish off this letter, gardening themed.

Bref Double: Shrublets
( Whomever says so lies )
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Bucolic: Country Flowers
( buckets of roses that have no scent )
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Burns Stanza: Glass
( So bright your eye and brown your crest )
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Byr a Thoddaid: Trimming Grapes
( Across their shriveled remnants drape )
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More experimentation with poetic forms - I've a dozen for B, four per set, on cats and gardens. I have an exceptional liking for the greenhouse one here.


Backwoods Boast: Pete
( He's the pinnacle of catness )
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Ballade: Greenhouse Seasons
( Beneath the glass a waiting green )
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Barzeletta (in Blank Verse): Catmint
( Ambrosia of the gods of felinity )
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Benison: Blessing for the Garden
( That our eyes should not lack beauty )
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Poetic forms are rather like little word puzzles to me, and Lewis Turco's Book of Forms is the ultimate handbook for anyone who likes to play with them. I've taken to working my way through all the forms alphabetically (well, skipping the really looong ones like "comic opera" that is), and will share a few of them here. I chose the themes of cats and gardens when I set out, and for the most part I've continued on those lines.

Acrostic: Green Tiger
( Green eyes, green leaves )
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Adonic line:
Curvature query
Whiskery weary.

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Ae Freislighe: Catspaw
( In velvet )
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Alba (a song for dawn)
( makes all nightsongs dim )
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Alcaic: Tuna
( O feline huntress )
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Hat-tip to Dorothy Parker.

A humble request
( A little place, that's all I ask )

The faded flowers of a life, and a heart.

Remembrance
( Rosemary sprigs she always kept )
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This is for Thelma, a tiny lady I all too briefly knew in the autumn of her days.

Knitting Granny
( Cheerfully telling everyone in her little monologue, (Whether they inquired or not -) )
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Three for the new year, the first for where we're going, the second for how and the third for why.

Future
( An unmarked beach, untrodden snow )
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Callouses
( The callouses upon my hands )
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Gentle Touch
( Gently, the hands that formed the world, took earth and round it spirit curled )
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One for winter's storms, one for the long dark nights and hours while the cold reigns outdoors.

Resistance
( The limbs of trees fall to the earth )
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Slumber
( Night is failing and I'm falling past dark hours into day )
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