Frankenberry's Attic

We had Laura, at the end of the week at dVerse Poets, with a prompt: MTB: Two and a Half Rhyme where she asks for us to write a 12 line (at least) poem consisting of couplets.

And so, for today’s MTB prompt we are writing in two lines stanzas as rhyming couplets thus:

Poetry Rules:

• Write at least 12 lines of poetry in couplets
• separate the poem into couplets of 2 line stanzas
• the couplets must rhyme but only using half or para rhymes [see examples below]

Now, I did my best, hopefully, to stick to the half or para rhyme’s … this was definitely a challenging prompt and a very cool one.  

What does my Bella dream?

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Bella Dreams in CatScope?

Bella dreams in CatScope? Dreams I do not know
nor be told if I were to ask, could possibly understand in the fold’s

of fur coated scampers from the depths of a plush cat head
with a fresh laid towel and a space heater heart

Does she recall window scenes in those CatScope dreams
our years passed through open screens of Spring and Summer’s shared breeze

of life whispered into a house cat’s thoughts, “if only” adventures touched
with grass and trees, squirrels and mice, birds and bees and many limbed windowsill bugs

or even something more, as ongoing and endless as yesterday’s cat of being
stretching to non-fatal curiosities today again curled in this CatScope to begin

or continue secrets she keeps in her meditations and even communes
maybe a spirit only she knows of and what it calls truth

while letting me live the conceit of her world being of just us, me
with a stretch for a yawned pet but a different reality entirely

scampering from the depths of a plush cat head
with a fresh laid towel and a space heater heart