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Open Poetry #47

A Girl So Blue

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2011-02-14 07:04 AM

I hope you enjoy this nonsensical poetry. The form is The Zejel (theh-hel). The first stanza, known as the mudanza, has three lines, rhyming aaa. All the other stanzas - as many of them as you like - have 4 lines, rhyming bbba, the a rhyme harking back to the first stanza. So the overall rhyming scheme for the poem is aaa/bbba/ccca/ddda/... Colloquial language tends to be used, and 8-syllable lines are usual (though not obligatory)!

We knew a girl who was so blue.
Why was she sad we never knew.
We wondered but we had no clue.

Some said she was sad for a man,
Whispers about a girl, Diane,
Who left her and moved to Japan,
We never knew if it were true.

She never smiled and would not laugh,
Walked around like a half-sick calf,
And had a neck like a giraffe,
It always looked a bit askew.

One day she up and went away,
She left a note and signed it Mae,
Said it was time for her to stray,
Searching for llama's in Peru.

~~ All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand ~~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2011-02-14 08:06 AM

Cute one Jerry! And I learned something new! Gotta love it!
Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2011-02-14 08:14 AM

Hi, Lori. Thank you for being here.

~~ All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand ~~

bel1e
Senior Member

since 2006-07-24

Posts 1631

3 posted 2011-02-14 09:04 AM

LOL~*~*~

very cute poem!

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2011-02-14 09:36 AM

Thanks, bel1e.

faithmairee
Senior Member

since 2011-01-05

Posts 1441
Poe Haven, USA

5 posted 2011-02-14 09:38 AM

Ditto! Very cute. Enjoyed it, JerryPat.

There must be a poem in here somewhere.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

6 posted 2011-02-14 09:45 AM

Appreciate it, Faith.

~~ All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand ~~

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