Cabin in the Woods
Sweet cabin mine,
Hidden among the forest trees,
Sweet cabin mine,
Surrounded by divine design,
By day, I observe honeybees,
By night, a firefly’s light I see,
Sweet cabin mine.
© Susan Joy Clark 2021
The challenge from Linda Kruschke of Another Fearless Year this week is to write a rondelet, using one (or more) of the pictured paint chip colors, and using “cabin in the woods” as a title.
According to The Poetry Dictionary by John Drury, a rondelet is …
RONDELET (ron-deh-lay’; French, “little rondel”) A form consisting of seven lines, with a refrain and only two rhymes. The rhyme and refrain scheme is AbAabbA (capital A = refrain). The refrain lines (A) each contain four syllables; the other lines (a and b) each contain eight syllables.
Your cabin sounds very peaceful and lovely.
Ah, thank you, Linda. It was a great prompt. I had a lot of cabin vacations in the Adirondacks and still like that kind of vacation. I’ve had cabin vacations in Maine and Tennessee as well.