【Poem Reading Tuesday】Alternate rhyme. The Northern Lights

妖妖灵
楼主 (文学城)

An alternate rhyme is a pattern found in poetry in which the author intentionally alternates between two end sounds. Usually, the pattern changes from stanza to stanza. For example, the first stanza rhymes ABAB and the second rhymes CDCD.

 

Simple, yet precise, the ABAB pattern prompts you to write a quatrain in which the first line rhymes with the third, and the third line rhymes with the fourth

 

Grasp the nettle(感谢 7grizzly 推荐)

by Aaron Hill  (Stressed syllables are highlighted)

Tender-handed stroke a nettle,

And it stings you, for your pains:

Grasp it like a man of mettle,

And it soft as silk remains.

 

Homework: Write a poem on the Northern Lights(Aurora Borealis)that showed up in North America a few days ago.

PIC from Internet

 

方外居士
交作业

Flying with light

To where you are heading?

Colorful  and  bright

Can you stay here and keep singing?

妖妖灵
哇,How wonderful your E poem is!Rhymed very well!Congrats!
妖妖灵
A perfect alternate rhyme!
忒忒绿
交作业:)

Aurora borealis 
left arctic?
It is.
what a magic.

 

暖冬cool夏
交作业:)支持一下。韵脚和pattern可能不太对。

Northern light was like Uncle Santa

Except he glided to the South in almost summer

The gifts he brought with were like Sonata

Except they were silent but splendid in color

 

附:女儿在西雅图拍到的照片:

 

 

妖妖灵
Nice!Concise!Another perfect alternate rhyme!
妖妖灵
Wow!Nice imaginary!Beautiful rhyme!How lucky is ur daughter!
妖妖灵
Nice pictures!
最西边的岛上
My try as below :-)

I couldn't meet you,
but I know you are colorful
I didn't see you 
but I hear you can dance
with the skies as the stage
with ever changing movements
you shone over mountains and oceans
dropped lights over forests and fields
and then you were gone, 
as fast and quiet as when you came

....

Note: Sorry that I was too sleepy to meet them 

方外居士
有趣的经验。多谢鼓励!
移花接木
Northern light! Pandora? Holy might? Aurora!
妖妖灵
Fantastic!The last sentence is the eye of the poem!Love it!
妖妖灵
Brevity is the soul of wit!