Hello! This is Frank Hubeny for Meeting the Bar.
It’s that time of year again. The Sun has been moving to either its highest or its lowest position in the sky. That trend reverses today.
Long days will become shorter. Short nights will become longer. Or the opposite depending on where you are on the Earth.
Day and Night. Two dancers interacting with each other are couples and couples remind me of couplets, a simple poetic form containing only two lines.
That will be the challenge today. Write a couplet, or a longer poem containing many couplets, optionally about the solstice.
For inspiration, Gay Reiser Cannon featured couplets for the New Year in 2011 providing many examples including some couplet forms that are not common such as contrapuntal couplets, chunlian couplets and duilian couplets. There is also the 17-syllable crystalline couplet form created by Denis Garrison. It is similar to a 17-syllable haiku but formatted on two lines.
For those new to this challenge, here are the steps to join in.
- Create a post you would like to associate with this couplets for the solstice prompt. Link back to dVerse from your post so others know where to go if they want to participate.
- Once you have your post published, copy the link to your post and paste it in the Mister Linky below. The Mister Linky may ask you to accept its privacy terms and conditions to link up if you haven’t done so already.
- Check out the other posts linked with yours. Reading and commenting is a way for us to get to know each other.
- Come back tomorrow and see what new links have appeared. The Mister Linky will be open for two days.
dVerse 
The pub is open. Welcome to Meeting the Bar with the theme of couplets.
Good evening, Frank. Thank you for hosting and for making the prompt a solstice couplet one. I’m afraid I have to post and run but will be back in the morning to read and comment.
I enjoyed your poem made out of couplets on measuring time, Kim!
Thank you, Frank!
Hello friends…. this week has been very very busy… Tomorrow it’s a holiday and maybe I will get back writing a bit later… Happy solstice. Happy midsummer.
Happy solstice, Bjorn!
You know, Frank, writing form and not writing couplets is a bit of a complex way of thinking. Ai will, though, try to make a two-liner which sounds poetic, even if it seems strange, presumably ending up in a word of wisdom. Ai don’t know if aI can post it on dVerse, though. MisterLinky has begun registering in a way aI am not comfortable with.
You might be able to post it in the comment section here, if you wish.
What is it about Mister Linky’s registering that is causing the problem you are experiencing? Maybe others have it as well and it is something we need to look into.
Ai believe there are other publishing services. 🙂
My effort: https://www.facebook.com/Trixnixmix/posts/416201558861350 .
Thank you for linking, Vaccinius! I like that “s” sound which reminds me of “solstice”.
Hey Frank! I missed my flight to Stonehenge, so I thought I’d drop by and have a look at the offerings here. I think I’ll have a Penumbra — make it a double!
Coming right up, Charley! Double it is. I wonder what they did at Stonehenge when it rained like it did today?
Evening, Poets! Thanks, Frank, for this delightful prompt. I had fun using a haiku sequence as a couplet! 🙂
Two haiku seem to work well as a couplet. Thanks for link that. It provides another way to put a couplet together.
Thanks, Frank! 😀
I adore couplets Frank ~ Thanks for reminding me of how fun this form can be ~ Happy Solstice to everyone ~
Happy Solstice, Grace. I like short forms and a couplet is about the same size as a haiku.
Couplets are fun, aren’t they? This is a good prompt. 🙂
I am glad you like the prompt. Give it a try if you get the chance.
I managed to do a few very brief couplets… amazing sitting outside blogging with birdsong
Thank you, Bjorn! Silence and birdsong is a nice balance on the solstice.