CHALLENGING MYSELF

Next, I scribble an old-fashioned octavilla

of two redondillas, using the familiar

rhyme pattern

a b b a          a c c a.

Poetry keeps flooding my mind.

a

Soon I try long octavillas

b

of two attached redondillas

b

with rhymes that can be hard to find.

a

Once all the words have been entwined

a

I see the pleasure of knowing

c

that a poem can change, growing

c

beyond old forms with counted lines.

a