Cabin In The Woods

endless rainstorm
won’t let me out, won’t let me roam
endless rainstorm
relentless barrage lacking form
safe within the place I call home
my cabin in the woods alone
endless rainstorm

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Linked to Linda Kruschke’s Paint Chip Rondelet Challenge. The challenge is to write a rondelet using one of the paint chip words or phrases as part of your refrain. You can use however many of the other words and phrases as you want in the other lines. The paint chip words and phrases you have to choose from are firefly, zephyr, fig leaf, key lime, night, rainstorm, and cabin in the woods. To add to the challenge, I want the title of your poem to be that final paint chip: cabin in the woods.

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RONDELET (ron-deh-lay’; French, “little rondel”) A form consisting of seven lines, with a refrain and only two rhymes. The rhyme and refrain scheme is AbAabbA (capital A = refrain). The refrain lines (A) each contain four syllables; the other lines (a and b) each contain eight syllables.