This Form - the Paradelle Style
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~ This Form ~
(Paradelle)
What can I say to you more?
What can I say to you more?
This form for me is so much fun
This form for me is so much fun
To you what more can I say
So much fun for me this form is…
Afraid I am already addicted to this
Afraid I am already addicted to this
Playing with words from my heart they come
Playing with words from my heart they come
Already to this afraid I am addicted
From the heart playing-they come from my heart
Hooked on verses of every kind
Hooked on verses of every kind
Toying with words, moving the lines
Toying with words, moving the lines
Of every kind hooked on verses
Moving the lines-toying with words
To you this form say more
With words and verses of every kind
Already addicted moving the lines
From the heart hooked on to this
Afraid they already come playing
With so much fun.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2004
September.04.2018
-'Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.'
- Mark Twain -
~Authors notes:
The Paradelle is a modern poetic form or style invented by Billy Collins as a parody of the villanelle. Billy Collins claimed that the paradelle was a difficult, fixed form consisting of four six-line stanzas with a repetitive pattern invented in eleventh century France, and the press believed the story and ran with it. Due to the extensive publicity, the Paradelle has made its rounds in the poetic community. Even though the form was invented as a hoax, the Paradelle has taken on a life of its own. It is still a difficult form, nonetheless, to practice which can be fun and
rewarding even though the inventor may not have intended it to be.
Copyright © Dorian Petersen Potter | Year Posted 2018
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