""Ak Verlang Na Ju" is a song in Africaans. It means "I'm longing for you." recorded by Wouter Kellerman. the CD "Love Language". The song is by Sonja Herholdt.

A picture prompt - reminiscent of van Gogh's paintings of olive tree groves.

Inspired by a landscape/seascape in which clouds over the sea in the distance appear to either rain down or draw up mist.

Inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca poem.

A memory of my two-year-old niece's introduction to strawberry picking.

Picture prompt...young man standing at a point of land out into water, mist rising, mountains on the other side.

Cutest picture of a little pig! I want one.

A challenge to use less than 25 word poem; prompt word: wall.

Thanks to all who submitted work for this creation of love for animals! I hope we can make a bit of difference in the lives of those who need rescuing and a loving home. Please have your friends and family consider purchasing as 50% will go to animal rescue efforts. Just go to Amazon..title is "Forever In Our Hearts: The Unconditional Love of Pets". Thank you, kind-hearted animal lovers!

Hadn't heard of this poem form (Clerihew) till recently. Had to give it a whirl. :-)

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/latenightpoets

Prompt" use all these words"

Hope:
Tastes like wine
Smells like cigarette
Feels like high
Looks like hell
Sounds like life..

Puttering away on a Saturday.

My foot looks like swiss cheese!

Tried adding to the Ocean Pantoum adding the mountains as an intertwined pantoum. I love both.

Attempt at an Italian sonnet...emphasis on the "attempt"  :-)

Oh my! What an "assignment"...prompt word: caravel.; write from the perspective of something blue.

Ten letters assigned by someone who chose them randomly.  First of each line, at least 5 words per line.
Not great but I can say "I tried." And thanks for playing along, Verlie

Roundelay
  By Lawrence Eberhart | January 14, 2013 | didactic
There is some confusion online as to the meaning of the term “roundelay,” with some references confusing it with the French “rondelet” and others describing it as any poem with a refrain. Actually, the roundelay, rondelet, rondeau, rondel, and other similar sounding poems all spring from a common French origin, but are all very different in contemporary use. The roundelay’s many repeating couplets and limited rhymes can make it a difficult form to write, but as with many successful poems with refrains, can also make for profound or esoteric poetry.
The roundelay consists of four sestets (six-line stanzas) made up of twelve repeating couplets (two-line stanzas, one of which repeats as each stanza’s last two lines. The stanzas’ couplets A,B,C,D ,E and R (the continuing refrain) combine in the following pattern:
A B R … B C R … C D R … D E R
So, in the second stanza, “B C R” represents six-lines (three couplets), with couplet “B” repeating from the first stanza, couplet “C” repeating in the following stanza, and its last couplet “R” repeating as every stanza’s last two lines. In addition, each couplet’s first line rhymes with other couplets’ first lines and all second lines rhyme with each other as well, making the rhyme scheme:
a-b-a-b-a-b … a-b-a-b-a-b … a-b-a-b-a-b … a-b-a-b-a-b
Remember that in a rhyming pattern, lines ending in a sound designated by “a” only rhyme with other “a” lines, “b” lines only with other “b” lines, and so on.
Trochaic tetrameter (four feet of “DUM-dah” per line, see “Meter”) is a requirement, but it is permissible for some of the lines to be one syllable short.


Ha-ha-ha!! Neither profound nor esoteric.

10 random letters typed on keyboard; used in order as first letter of lines; at least 5 words per line.

For a "contest" challenge to use all letters in poem.

Dusted off out of the "archives".

I love both cats and dogs!

Not the ABC poem form as it showed on the site where I found it. Went a slightly different way.
"ABC - A poem that has five lines and creates a mood, picture, or feeling. Lines 1 through 4 are made up of words, phrases or clauses while the first word of each line is in alphabetical order. Line 5 is one sentence long and begins with any letter."

A repost updated a bit...what is this insanity?!

Paradelle: a form that was first presented by Billy Collins as an Old French form. He fessed up later that he had created the form. It is complicated but a good challenge!

When Collins first published the paradelle, it was with the footnote "The paradelle is one of the more demanding French fixed forms, first appearing in the langue d'oc love poetry of the eleventh century. It is a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas, must be identical. The fifth and sixth lines, which traditionally resolve these stanzas, must use all the words from the preceding lines and only those words. Similarly, the final stanza must use every word from all the preceding stanzas and only these words."