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Welcome fellow members to Romancing The Pen group! I look foward to working along with you nad reading your future challenge submissions. As I said, this group is open to all. If you have questions feel free to ask and I will reply ASAP.

Okay, I'm Catrina, 31 and love to write in new forms that are no longer used or even seen thse days. If you know of any styles please please let the group know in this thread. I have been writing different styles for a time now. I would love to learn more. What about you? What styles do you want to learn or know already?

Women weep.

Women weep.

Behind a banner men unite
arrayed in armour shining bright.
Each warrior prepared to die,
ready to fight but knows not why.
It has been so since time began,
each yearns to prove he is a man.
The widows weep and wail and mourn.
Was it for this our sons were born?
To die upon some battlefield
be carried home upon his shield.
Because his chieftain would not yield.

That�s how it was in days of yore
when tribal chieftains went to war
Still human nature does not change
and foolish men see nothing strange.
Enlisting in some obscure cause
to fight and die in useless wars
Their women folk are left to cry
the price they pay is far too high.
The burning question must be why.

We do not learn from history.
There really is no mystery,
young men are still fooled easily
by politicians who they see
As learned men who are just and wise
and foolishly believe their lies
The women folk are not so blind
but head strong men pay little mind
to well found fears of womenkind

Though womenfolk have always known
that once men hear the trumpets blown
The men folk lose their common sense
and rush to fight in the defence
of what they�re told is liberty
by those placed in authority.
So children are left fatherless
and womenfolk in deep distress.
Men's foolishness is limitless.

19-Jun-07
Cyhydd naw ban

Welsh bardic form

Could it?

Could it?

It could be true! That nothing�s real.
That all the dreams that we pursue
are just illusions which appeal?
It could be true!
That all the things I thought I knew
are delusions and are not real.
You have another point of view.
Can you believe that what you feel?
is not just an illusion too.
Or does it still seem real to you
It could be true!

18-Jun-07

roundel

Culpable

Culpable

Re-echoing.
The words we spoke but now regret.
Re-echoing.
The pain they caused still lingering
although not meant to cause upset.
They are not easy to forget.
Re- echoing

Rondelet
18-Jun-07


Three forms to play with ivor

Great idea Catrina..
Let's just say.. i'm a noob.. and I want to learn how to write sonnets ::smile::

Thanks for the invitation, Yira. sounds interesting..
I like the name.. Romancing the Pen..

Thanks again.

Chloe