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.