Fussy Little Forms: Chained Rhyme

Hello, dear Friends and happy weekend to you! It is time for a form challenge. Today we will revisit a form introduced in the Garden by Joy a few years ago and enjoyed by many: CHAINED RHYME.

I don’t really think this form counts as fussy or little. But let’s do it anyway. The basic premise is that the last syllable or word of each line is followed by a rhyme on the first word or syllable of the next line. LIKE A CHAIN, get it? Hah. 

It’s not really fussy or little because the poem can be anything you want--long lines or short, many lines or just a few, strict meter or no meter, whatever you like. Just those rhymes and the end and start of your lines.

Joy’s earlier prompt is so amazing that I am being lazy (and not redundant!) by linking to her description here, check it out:

    Chained Rhyme, Part One by Joy/Hedgewitch 
 

I’ve written a few chained rhyme poems and really like this exercise.  Here is one example:

When the season turns Blue,

bruised by silence buried in snow,

no end in sight,

light a distant

remnant of Noontimes forgot,

fought over, then ignored,

stored for another dark week on Earth,

it’s worth recalling how it feels,

heels entrenched,

benched like an understudy waits,

ingratiates the Moon to draw its curtains back,

black like night,

flight impossible, no one watching under

cover of the greyest shroud--Clouds.

 

Have fun! And if this doesn’t pique your creativity, perhaps this fantastic video by 

Katy Perry will inspire. We are all chained to the rhythm!