A Taste for Life | Writing Challenge
Forgive and Forget?
A writing challenge about the power of negativity and/or positivity in life.
Life can be complex making you sad,
Why choose misery and not be glad?
Fear not, my dear friend, hope does exist
— there is no need to get barking mad.
Forgive and forget, we need to learn
— an attitude that will make you glad.
A glee glorious smile on your dial.
— nagging negativity forbade.
The poem above was inspired by and is loosely based on, the Chueh-chu Chinese poetic form. However, the muse decided to go in a different direction when it came to writing the poem and decided to turn it into A Taste for Life Writing Challenge.
Chueh-chu Chinese Poetic Form:
A Chueh-chu poem consists of two quatrains with a set end rhyme scheme written in Chi Yen Shih or Wu Yen Shih meters. This poetic form is seen as a “sonnet cut short.”
My poem does not follow the layout conventions of the Chueh-chu poetic format but use one of the suggested end rhyme schemes (aaba/cada). The poem above has 9 syllables…
