I chose the word FRIGHT this week.
You may, if you wish, make some kind of link between the Haiku Challenge prompt of (BLOOM & Wet). and FRIGHT. I‘m thinking they could work well together, depending on how macabre you wanted to get. The HIAKU challenge can be switched out with synonyms.
The 2 CHALLENGES are SEPARATE but CAN BE combined if YOU CHOOSE to do so.
Welcome to the Décima Poetry Challenge. Each week we’ll be attempting a Décima, also known as an Espinela, poem.
If you don’t know how to write a Décima, click HERE to go to a post on How to Write an Espinela or Décima Poem.
Or…
Keep reading and find out, with an example included.
- To read last week’s Décima Poetry written for the prompt for FRIGHT, click HERE for all the links in one post.
Back to our scheduled Décima Poetry Challenge what to and what not to do.
If you can’t come up with a Décima using the given prompt, you can use a Synonym instead. I don’t want to stall your creativity, and with the possibility of a synonym, you will certainly write something amazing…or in my case, something that rhymes.
Sites to help:
RhymeZone.com
Thesaurus.com
Merriam-Webster.com Use this site for syllables. I’ve used several online counters and too many have given different counts for the same word, so I use the dictionary now. Also, in some parts of the English speaking world, the syllables may come out in the spoken language a bit differently. And that’s okay. Write to enjoy, too learn, and yes, try to get the syllables right, but above all create and enjoy.
Here is the quick description of a Décima:
There are 10 lines of poetry that rhyme. 8 syllables.
There is a set rhyming pattern we must stick to. abbaaccddc
The prompt word given (in the post heading) must appear at the end of one of the given rhyme lines, either A, B, C, or D.
Let’s look at the rhyme pattern once again and you will see what I mean.
The rhyming pattern is abbaaccddc with a choice of a break between lines 4 and 5, then being abba accddc, which I use in my example below.
For example, if I say in the subject line of the post:
“…(FALL) This week it’s the B rhyme line.”
my Décima might be…
NO!
As the end wept upon the land,
we could hear the approaching fall.
Justice answered the trumpet’s call,
trusting the fight to her troop’s hand.
Fate trembles with haste to expand,
through misdeeds by her shameless foe.
Past foolish decisions now crow,
“Wait—no—this was not meant to be.”
They beg the nation, “Hear our plea.
Heal honor, shout, no…no… NO!”
Notice the example prompt word ‘FALL’ is in line 2, the first B line, and its rhyme is in line 3, matching the rhyming pattern of abba accddc.
For today’s challenge, the word FRIGHT must be one of the A line words. Then the other A line(s) word(s) must rhyme with FRIGHT.
Sometimes you break the rhyme into two stanzas using the following rhyme pattern. abba/accddc.
Once you complete your poem and post it on your blog, copy the link and place it in the comments in this post. That way other people can visit your post and check out your poem. You can also put the link of this challenge in your post to let your followers know where to go if they want to participate. This is called a Pingback. This is not mandatory to join in or to put your post link in the comments. Click HERE to find out how to do a Pingback.
Reblogging is great as well.
Some people like to copy and paste the challenge image into their posts. That’s okay with me.
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Tale of whimsy this week at https://bobfairfield.org/2020/10/28/ronovan-writes-decima-weekly-challenge-29/
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Fright of Fancy
T’was that time of year, time of night,
time of season, darkness upon
the land, the soul, the jaded dawn,
when ghouls walk their gruesome rite.
Graveyard spirits, in ancient fright,
Rise from the earth and hover there,
to shock, to scream, and, yes, to scare
the living who will one day chance
to strut our own bone-rattling dance:
Ghosts we will be, in death-howled air.
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Nice. Has a bit of that Vincent Price ‘Thriller’ feel to it. I can hear him read this.
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Once, sometime in the late sixties, I went to an all-night Vincent Price horror film extravaganza. The Pit and the Pendulum; The Raven; The Fall of the House of Usher; at last 2 or 3 others. Peter Lorre was in a couple of them…a great night…
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Great post I hear Vincent Price too💜
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Lorre was one of the best actors ever. Highly overlooked.
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Excellent 💜
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Here is mine, sorry I am late 💜
https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2020/10/29/ronovan-writes-decima-poetry-challenge-prompt-no-29-fright-this-week-its-the-a-rhyme-line/
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Great rhythm…
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Thanks…
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Heres the Decima I picked ;). Thank you for the challenge
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