Saturday Mix – Lucky Dip, 13 July 2019

Welcome to the Saturday Mix – Lucky Dip, 13 June 2019!

For this week’s Lucky Dip, I have reached into my mystery bag and pulled out an Oddquain. The topic is up to you!

You may be thinking to yourself, What on earth is an Oddquain?

Luckily, Shadow Poetry has an explanation…

Oddquain
Oddquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of seventeen syllables distributed 1, 3, 5, 7, 1 in five lines, developed by Glenda L. Hand.

Oddquain variations:

  • oddquain sequences – poems made up of oddquain stanzas
  • crown oddquains – a five stanza oddquain sequence
  • reverse oddquains – an oddquain with a reverse syllable pattern of 1-7-5-3-1
  • mirror oddquains – a two stanza oddquain sequence of the pattern 1-3-5-7-1 1-7-5-3-1
  • oddquain butterflies – a “merged mirror oddquain” where the two stanzas of a mirror oddquain are merged together, one of the middle 1 syllable lines is dropped, resulting in one nine line stanza of the form 1-3-5-7-1-7-5-3-1. Please note that an oddquain butterfly is not an “oddquain” because it doesn’t have five lines, but it is “butterfly” made up of two oddquains that were merged together into one poem.

Examples of Oddquain poetry

  • Example #1:
  • Autumn

    Fall
    leaves floating
    downward, spiral dance
    of joy begun, welcoming
    fall.

    Copyright © 2006 Glenda L. Hand

    Example #2:

    Change of Seasons (Mirror Oddquain)

    Breeze
    bites with cold
    bitter now after
    summer’s warmth has fled away–
    fall
    breeze
    spirals gold and red leaves
    mixed into colored
    carpet, new
    day.

    Copyright © 2006 Glenda L. Hand

    Example #3:

    Celebration (Butterfly Oddquain)

    Child
    dances in
    September’s swirl of
    leaves, golden colors form her
    skirt
    of dazzling freedom, twirling
    into the final
    fall to earth’s
    arms

    Copyright © 2006 Glenda L. Hand

    Example #4:

    At Last I’ve Let Go (Crown Oddquain)

    Love
    happiness
    once full of colour
    now shards of disappointment
    ~fool~

    Prized
    feelings crushed
    beneath tumbled words
    washed out with twilight raindrops
    ~gone~

    Pause
    for much thought
    and straightforwardness
    shilly-shallying cut short
    ~stop~

    A
    colourful
    chalk, smudged to nothing
    curtain call on future dreams
    ~lost~

    The
    scented rains
    that watered my soul
    no longer wreaks disorder
    ~glad~

    Copyright © 2006 Claire Litchfield

    Good luck with your ‘Lucky Dip Oddquain’ – I can’t wait to see what you come up with! Don’t forget to tag ‘Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’, ‘Saturday Mix’, and hashtag #LuckyDip.

    As always, make sure you link your fabulous creation to the helpful Mister Linky.

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