Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with picture), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, O is for ....Ottava Rima. “An ottava rima is a type of poem which is composed of 8 eleven-syllable lines, with an a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c rhyme scheme. It was developed in the late thirteenth century and early fourteenth century for drama and religious songs by Tuscan poets.”

Not the Way to Spend a Saturday Night

Hospitals are nasty places to spend nights
in emergency room chairs designed only
by sadists. Or maybe at doctors’ delights.
One thing for sure, you can never be lonely.
Look over there, at the nurses in your sights,
And patients all over, handsome to homely.
When your name is finally called, you jump up
and hope you don’t have to fill too many cups.

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter O.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…