Double Refrain Ballade Supreme
By Lawrence Eberhart | | All, Contemplative
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An isosyllabic poem of 35 lines divided into three ten line verses and a five-line envoi.
Each line is usually eight or ten syllables long.
It has two refrains.
The rhyming and repeating structure are thus:
ababbCcdcD
ababbCcdcD
ababbCcdcD
cCdcD.
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Distracted ( Double Refrain Ballade Supreme)
I wonder why it seems to be
that what I’ve planned is still undone
when evening catches up with me.
At times I’ve even not begun
on plans I’d reckoned might be fun.
I start my day with plans in mind
and then some poet’s verse I find
that illustrates I’ve more to learn
about those words so well aligned
and dally there without concern.
I will admit to OCD
that leads me to what I should shun-
a not known form of poetry
(or one at least I’ve never spun)
Always I feel I must try one.
I start my day with plans in mind
But ‘ere I start I’m ‘oft inclined
to read and let the candle burn
and ponder what my friends designed,
and dally there without concern.
I’m after all the invitee,
as sure as I’m my mother’s son,
they wrote these words for me to see.
The ticking clock can’t be outrun,
my plans get lost but know-how’s won.
I start my day with plans in mind
but some how they get left behind
when I see skills for which I yearn
where thought and form are well combined
I dally there without concern.
Although the Pert chart’s undefined
I start my day with plans in mind
occasionally I will return
to readings that were not assigned
and dally there without concern.
© Lawrencealot – January 24, 2014
Related forms:Ballade,Ballade Stanza,Ballade Supreme,Double Ballade, Chanso,Double Ballade Supreme,Double Refrain Ballade,Double Refrain Ballade Supreme,Grand Ballade or Chant Royal.
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Ballade Supreme
By Lawrence Eberhart | | All, Uncategorized
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Pronounced Bal-Odd.
Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement,
Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Isosyllabic
3 – 10 line stanzas, 10 syllables per line, 5 line envoy, Refrain
ababbccdcD ababbccdcD ababbccdcD ccdcD
Example Poem
Organized religion takes wealth from fools
Their God plays to members who must applaud.
Congregations, powerful, then vote rules
exempting them from taxes– quite a wad,
The solitary reason some found God.
Mark Twain best said it and not as a joke.
If you could reason with those in church’s yoke,
(but generally you cannot, I swear)–
If you could, there’d be no religious folk.
Professed belief is a vestment men wear.
Proselyte, aggregate are common tools.
Convert, assemble, in the name of God.
The cult leader see fiscal, cultural jewels.
Believers wait until they’re under sod.
In religions name, so oft they maraud.
More died in quests religions have provoked
than in wars other evil has evoked.
I understand the quest to ban despair
Save thyself! In fantasy waters soak.
Professed belief is a vestment men wear.
A God there may well be; that question rules.
But not an interactive “man” facade
that demands devout devoted, frightened fools.
The force started every thing I laud
But religion’s fables I’ll not applaud.
Natural law will serve well for my cloak.
Promised gifts or punishments are a joke.
Virgin birth or virgin gifts- do not square
with reason “God” seemed not to yet revoke.
Professed belief seems a vestment men wear.
In the U. S. congress there’s but one bloke
who admits he wears not God for a cloak.
The others profess “God”, so not to scare
The sheep who are fine with mirrors and smoke.
Professed belief is a vestment men wear.
(c) Lawrencealot – October 2012
Author Notes
This is a Ballade Supreme, apparently the third onewritten in English, one byAmera, now two by me.
Today I searched for a new write and found one written 2/9/2012 called Ballade Supreme, but it fails to comply by having a REFRAIN.
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