Family Picnic, (The Bref Double)   Clouds languish warm summer sky Azure field holding red orb aloft Worrisome thoughts dissipate in thin air Lush meadows sprinkled with wildflowers Parents follow, children’s kite tail Happily chasing a bright butterfly Quietly watching from spread picnic cloth Peacefully sharing long summer hours Picnic ready, let’s eat they cry Carefully packed basket soon emptied The lilt of children’s’ laughter, buzz of dragonfly Darkening sky ablaze with fireworks filled air At end of summer, when autumn leaves fly Treasured memories, warm comfort there By NewDreamer © 2003 NewDreamer (All rights reserved)   Written for The Form Over Substance Challenge This form is a Bref Double. The Bref Double is a French form that looks suspiciously like a sonnet, but the rhyme scheme is completely different, and it does not have to be written in Iambic Pentameter, it can be written in hexameter, tetrameter, or whatever you prefer. It is written as three quatrains and a couplet, and the rhyme scheme looks like this: ( the 'x' lines denotes lines where no rhyme is required) a/x/b/c x/a/x/c a/x/a/b a/b

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