K is for Kyrielle Verse and Kindle (A-Z Challenge and NaPoWriMo #13)

NaPoWriMo #11

Write a poem that begins with a letter of something you have in your house.

An ode to my new reading tool

Something that I did not intend

Yet having one does break a rule

My Kindle is my newest friend

Unfaithful to my paperbacks

Electronic doesn’t feel penned

Gone is my heavy toting sacks

My Kindle is my newest friend

Can’t seem to give up books in hand

Even so I still recommend

You try them both don’t take a stand

My Kindle is my newest friend

This form is called Kyrielle, a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains. Each line consists of only eight syllables.  Popular rhyming is aabB,ccbB,ddbB or aabB,ccbB,ddbB, with B being the repeated.

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© Lisa N ~ 4/13/2011

Body Image Mismatch - One-Shot Wednesday

I look in the mirror

Yet who do I see

An image stares back

Is that really me?

I look back again

The apple I see

Is round like a pear

Is that really me?

I watch what I eat

Yet no change do I see

Nothing seems to be working

Is that really me?

Drastic turn I will take

So others don’t see

Binge and/or purge yet

Is that really me?

Others say I am Skinny

It’s not what I see

What I see is fat

Is that really me?

posted at http://g-man-mrknowitall.blogspot.com/2011/03/one-shot-wednesday_22.html

© Lisa Northrup ~ 3/22/2011