Stine Writing and Miniatures

W3 Prompt #92: Wea’ve Written Weekly

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W3 Prompt #92: Wea’ve Written Weekly
https://skepticskaddish.com/2024/01/31/w3-prompt-92-weave-written-weekly/
  • Poetic form (required): Puente;
    • Tone (required): Either the 1st or the 3rd stanza should have a happy tone, and the other should have a sad tone;
    • For the 2nd stanza (suggested): Use a quote, idiom, phrase, etc.
  • Theme (required): Love

True Love

When it begins its sunshine and smiles
It brings you together across many miles
The love that you share is bright and is strong
Nothing you know could ever go wrong

Until the day it all goes wrong

Out of the blue your world falls apart
It feels like a knife has cut open your heart
You’re broken and bruised and just feeling ill
True love has gone and broken your will

©2024 CBialczak

The puente form has three stanzas with the first and third having an equal number of lines and the middle stanza having only one line which acts as a bridge (puente) between the first and third stanza.

The first and third stanzas convey a related but different element or feeling, as though they were two adjacent territories. The number of lines in the first and third stanzas is the writer’s choice as is the choice of whether to write it in free verse or rhyme.

The center line is delineated by a tilde (~) and has ‘double duty’. It functions as the ending for the last line of the first stanza AND as the beginning for the first line of the third stanza. It shares ownership with these two lines and consequently bridges the first and third stanzas.

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  4. Broadly love at its best and that its worst, contrasting theme, fantastically rhymed, perfect bridge line keeps it to the prompt beautifully. So, both the stanza tone motivate all the lovers until the day it really goes wrong, which is anyway an unwanted and unexpected day by them. lol 😊😊 Outstanding take, Christine. My sincere thanks for the piece. 👍👏

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