Thought I’d try a new one, this week, Ronovan has a Decima challenge.
A different type of syllabic poetry, with a rhyming structure as well.
Décima poetry is a 10 line stanza with 8 syllables per line. The rhyming pattern is abbaaccddc. Using the 10 lines there are generally two ways to organize: The 10 lines, or breaking the 10 lines into two stanzas using abba/accddc.
Ronovan Hester
This week, the prompt is Blind, and it needs to be used in one of the C lines.
Here goes….!
Everything seems just so surreal
When will this world begin to heal?
Politics covering the truth
Blaming the aged, and the youth
We try to see, they just conceal
I feel like I am going blind
Maybe I am losing my mind
My thoughts muddle with one another
Feelings that I try to smother
But it’s just life, the daily grind
Ritu 2020
I logged in this evening to check my blog and in the notifications sat this little beauty, nestled amongst the comments and likes.
And I have had a blast the last six years!
Thank you all for putting up with me, my silliness, my ups and downs, my (possible) pearls of wisdom, my observations, my creations… basically my everything I post.
Thanks to you all, my blog has won awards that I hold dear to my heart, I had the courage to finish that novel, and publish it, I’m writing another, and I have made the most amazing friends.
My blogily are the biggest reason I am here. Without you all encouraging me, liking, commenting and enjoying my posts, I may have given up a long time ago.
I’ve had years where I posted multiple times a day, a whole year of posts every day. Recently, I’ve been quieter, due to the current situation, and work/life stuff.
But you.
You’ve been there throughout.
Thank you.
Seriously, thank you all. I hope to be here for a lot longer, too, and look forward to (hopefully) being able to entertain you all as long as I am able!
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