Serendipity from the Slice of Life Challenge is learning about new poetry forms. At Birds and Trees of the Mind, Paul is trying different poetry forms. He posted a rondelet recently. Rondelet is a French poetry form derived from a word meaning small circle. The poem circles. The syllable pattern is 4A /8b /repeat line 1/8a/8b/8b/repeat line 1.
From Creative Commons
Into the night
Crescent moon rises up singing
into the night
reflections through the leaves alight
wind swept silences, chimes ringing
Tomcat prowls, his proud catch bringing
into the night.
Reflections on the Teche 
Beautifully done! It gives a very quiet, night sounds feel. Lots going on in the quiet of night!
Love this…seems difficult to do but you captured it so well.
love it Margaret…especially the Tomcat visual xo
Gorgeous images, Margaret. I like the tomcat lines too!
I like how the phrase “Into the night” keeps sweeping there to discover new mysteries.
Wind swept silences…. such a lovely poem, so many gorgeous images.
Beautiful. I may have to try it. Sometime. 🙂
Love the repeated line, “Into the night”. It really seems to accentuate the setting.
What a gorgeous piece!! I’m sorry I’m only commenting on it now, but my last thought before I crashed on the couch until about an hour ago was “I have to do my slice #6 comments”…
As you well know, the challenge of these forms is to control them and not let them control you — to give the reader the feeling that you aren’t doing anything artificial simply to fit the demands of the form. You do that beautifully here: a wonderful mixture of sight and sound, personification, great alliteration and consonance, and my favorite part — your super-deft handling of the line breaks. A powerfully skilled bit of craft!
I’m glad something I’m doing over at my ‘place’ is useful to you! This is really a tremendous, professional poem. I aspire to be as good as you are!
If you leave me a comment like this, I don’t mind if you are late every day. Wow! I really appreciate this. Do you teach writing? I taught my class the Rondelet form today and many of them chose to post one for their SOLC. They are posting at http://kidblog.org/SliceofLifeChallenge/. I write with them so I posted too. Thanks for being an inspiration to me and my students.
I teach English, which can unfortunately be somewhat different than teaching writing. And the fact that your class wrote rondelets made my day! Thank you so much for letting me know! 🙂
Your kids did some great work on these! Impressive! 🙂