The Moon stars the night cloud as he plays ....

Clouds whisper to the moon

as he passes her tanned face

curtains her with white smoke

to rave themselves in a secret place

I, breathe in silence

peeping over the window sill

watching them play

I stay

He moves swiftly unveiling her face

enriching her looks with sparkling stars

As she dazzled in her new diamond lace

he saw her shying away from his hold

This love and play they had

would make any poet express their joy

for finding an artistic display

lay gracefully at bay

I accompanied their show

with my canvas and brush

painting the moonlit beau

Seeing me stare at them

they send their sigh as breeze

soothing me to sleep with ease

As the moonlit night sublimes to dawn

I awoke with a yawn

as dews brushed my skin

eager to look the night princess

engraved in a paper by pen

through my poetic fingers

She has revived from my words

"Shining Again"

Ottava Rima - WANTING

After a short break, I am continuing with the "Exploring Poetry" journey with a new poetry form "OTTAVA RIMA".

What is this Ottava Rima?.It is a rhyming stanza of Italian origin usually for long poems.Many poeters such as Boccaccio , Poliziano , Boiardo Spenser, Milton, Yeats and  Lord Byron have successfully used this form in their poems.The Ottava Rima in its current form was created by the Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio, who used it first in Theseide.


The Filostrato of Giovanni Boccaccio

To write a Ottava Rima  :

1. As the name says ,the Italian musical term "ottava" is related to the Italian word for eight: otto.  and "rima"means rhyme in Italian meaning that it is a stanza of eight lines which has rhyming scheme.
2. It is usually written in  iambic pentameter.Iambic foot means that has two syllables the first lightly stressed, and the second heavily stressed. Pentameter is five of those feet to a line. 
3. From the above two points, we have to write a poem of eight lines in five feet and each foot has the stress on the second syllable.
4. The rhyming pattern of each stanza consists of three alternate rhymes and one double rhyme, following the ab-ab-ab-cc pattern.It is said that the Italian poets used the female rhymes to these patterns.

WANTING

As child ,I wished for things toying my eyes  (a) 

Some worked with tantrums ,every child's weapon  (b) 

To seek warmth and attention this child relies  (a) 

Shield , I  snail into my Mother's curtain  (b) 

As adult , I grabbed eyes to make magpies    (a) 

Ruling the world as if my own cabin  (b) 

I had my own drama and scenes to be  (c) 

Yet rooted to the  ground, pleased to agree  (c) 

A bit of my grand passed to my mother  (a) 

Who then passed it to my daughter through me (b) 

I wanted my kid to grow with laughter  (a) 

With the positives that I  learned to gee   (b) 

Growing from mistakes , part of  another (a) 

Clung onto my generations to be (b) 

To follow my journey , quenching my steam (c)

In search to end my half completed dream (c)

PS:

I tried to follow the meter and rhyming pattern.The foot varies according to the rhyme , not so iambic .Post your views below as comments on the same .If You have a Ottava Rima of your own , do leave your links in the comment section below .