Pie Quebrado: Spanish-broken foot. The Broken footed couplet is from 14th
century. Often used in the Copla. Often follows an octosyllabic or 8 syllable couplet.
Two Stanzaic forms:
1. A couplet of two 8 syllable lines followed by a tail, a 4 syllable line.
2. A couplet made of 8 syllable line followed by 4 syllable line.
From a Child a Garden of Verses
I was a rainbow-eyed child.
My imagination ran wild.
happy and free
Mind raced like a motorcycle.
from when I rode a tricycle
rode skillfully.
No ballerina. I liked tap
I talked in rhyme in finger snap
poetically.
Words and images came to dance
giving poems and novels a chance
Creatively
From when I could write I wrote reams
scribbling, drawing youthful dreams
Delightfully
Words bloomed like hyacinths, the scope
a cosmic garden filled with star hope
Galactically
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My Thanks to Linda Varsell Smith for her contributions above.
My example
Game’s On (Form: Pie Quebrado)
A woman needn’t even try
too hard to catch a fellow’s eye.
and then he’s caught.
Should she be merely fishing guy,
she’ll reel you in and drain you dry;
of all you’ve got.
Just knowing that is not enough
your hormones can’t resist that stuff;
you’ll want to play.
So play you will. Enjoy the thrill!
Remember still she is the shill
and you’re the prey.
© Lawrencealot – January 6, 2015
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