Missing Child

Rondeau - For my creative writing class, I've been given a packet of quite a few different kinds of poems, and the assignment is to write my own using the decriptions and examples.

A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabbaR aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short " a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one.

 

Missing Child - Rondeau

I am a runaway

I love to spend the day to play

Away from my life and its people disease

Just one more day to be alone with me, please

Although I know when I return, there will be hell to pay

All I ever wanted was to bring a smile to your face

But when I finally came home, the look you gave me was pure disgrace

I would love to be myself, and please you too

But I am a runaway, and this is what I do

I am nocturnal to say the least

Yet, if I don’t get to stay out I become a beast

What ever will you do with a daughter like me?

I suppose I’ll just have to wait and see

I wish I could fix everything and start over new…

 

But I am a runaway…

                          

 

                               …and this is what I do.

Author's Note

More practice (:

Reviews

[Dave Brown]

I often wonder if adhering to a specific format is more rewarding than just having at it, which is my inclination
Whatever, you have done an admirable first (?) effort here with what looks to be a difficult style.
What's that bring the house down type noise I hear?
Oh!
Its hands clapping!!

[Broken.]

Thank you for this lovely review! Always welcomed. (:

[I Am Svetlana]

This is like what I am, a disgrace. But I am trying to fix myself around my mother to make her happy. Great write!

[Angie Diane♥&hea..]

I liked this poem. It was sad, but amazing. Thanks for sharing. :D

[r]

i agree with kelley you pulled off a hard type of poem to do wonderfully... nice job

[Nicole]

Mann, lol. Juliana. I really like this.
I know i couldn't pull this off on the first try..but YO!
I was listening to this one song, from Death Cab For Cutie..
and it went so perfectly with this. almost haunting.
:D 100/100

P.S. We gotta hang some day, haven't seen you in like a year. O.O

[Kelley]

Sound very hard to do but you pulled it off beautifully.
Great poem Broken thanks for sharing.

Kelley