Welcome to my April 2025 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, V is for …Virelai

“The virelai is a French poetic form with alternating rhymes and line lengths. Here are basic guidelines:

• nine lines per stanza
• lines one, two, four, five, seven, and eight have five syllables
• lines three, six, and nine have two syllables
• the five-syllable lines rhyme with each other and the two-syllable lines rhyme with each other to make the following rhyme patter: aabaabaab
• the end rhyme for the short lines continues on in the following stanza
• the final stanza’s short-line end rhyme should be the same as the long-line end rhyme in the opening stanza (to complete the end-rhyme circle)

Waiting Room

We sit in black chairs
silent. And we stare
at those
phones sending us where
madmen rant and dare
to pose
like birds strutting there,
ravens of nightmares
and woes.

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Thanks for visiting my 2025 A to Z Challenge – Letter V.