Biographical Poetry posted April 6, 2024 Chapters:  ...4 5 -6- 7... 


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#6 - NaPoWriMo 2024 = Back to the beginning...

A chapter in the book Love is in the Air

Polka Dots

by Ginda Simpson

Polka dots, white ones on green;
my favorite dress; I was nineteen.
Waiting for a bus going south,
that is when he opened his mouth.
Usually shy, this was not routine.

Was I American, he had to see;
he smiled and asked, come sit with me.
What attracted him, I do not know.
Polka dots, white ones on green,
my favorite dress; I was nineteen.

I look back now, on that time in Spain
glad I took the bus and not the train.
For on that day, I must confess,
all because of a certain dress,
we felt love stir, it was insane.
Polka dots, white ones on green,
my favorite dress: I was nineteen.

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This is the sixth poem for NaPoWriMo 2024. It is my attempt at a Rondeau, but I must call it a modified or non-traditional Rondeau, as it wasn't until after I completed it that I realized I didn't follow the rhyme scheme. A rondeau is a fixed form of poetry. It is often used in light or witty poems. It often has fifteen octo - or decasyllabic lines with three stanzas. It usually only has two rhymes used in the poem.
A word or words from the first part of the first line are used as a refrain ending the second and third stanzas. The rhyme scheme is aabba aabR aabbaR.

Tomorrow I shall try another one and stick to the rules.
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