Prompts for the Eighth Hour
Text Prompt
Every year we have a new form prompt, and this year, it’s the Gigan, which is an invented form. There’s a detailed blog post about it here, and it includes an example Gigan, which always helps.
Gigans must be 16 lines in length with seven stanzas (each stanza is separated by a line break). It goes couplet (two lines), tercet (three lines), couplet, couplet, couplet, tercet, couplet.
The first line is also the eleventh line, line six is repeated as line 12 as well.
Optionally the closing couplet should put a twist on the poem, but that isn’t a requirement.
Blue Moon Valley
~willjxn~
Let me walk in blue moon valley
where the blues sky people lived
Take me there to walk the wind
Lift me up to touch the stars.
Skip rocks on the winding streams.
Morning cross The Blood of Christ
Evenings guard me by a saint.
Spirits of the blue sky people
Sing their song in wind and rain.
Pray for me, blue sky people
Let me walk in Blue Moon Valley
Morning cross The Blood of Christ
Pray with song and dance for life
Moon alight upon my face.
Sing with me in Blue Moon Valley
Dance a prayer of grace.
Blue Moon Valley works well as a Gigan! I like how the lines and stanzas relate to each other from beginning to end! Blue sky people give me the impression it could be any culture or sub culture which I love! Fav line ♡ dance a prayer of grace.