Speak Up When You’re Bloody Well Right

Abused by wanton disregard
Don’t go slow, don’t let down your guard
Jaded views versus honed beliefs
Try hard to preserve your motifs
Avoid souls obviously marred

Choosing words wisely in your fight
Shouting loudly with all your might
Do not hold back, let your words fly
Your voice resonates in the sky
Speak up when you’re bloody well right

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Speak up when you’re bloody well right
Speak up when you’re bloody well right
Speak up when you’re bloody well right
Speak up when you’re bloody well right
Speak up when you’re bloody well right

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This is a quadruple play poem attempting to satisfy four distinct and unrelated prompts/challenges:

1. Linked to Linda Kruschke’s Paint Chip Quintilla or Two, where I used the quintilla form and the paint chips slow and jade.
2. Linked to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Bloody Well Right Musical Challenge #182, where newepicauthor challenged us to write a poem using the song Bloody Well Right by Supertramp as our prompt.
3. Linked to SammiScribbles Weekend Writing Prompt #209, where the challenge is to use the word wanton in a poem of exactly 60 words.
4. Linked to dVerse Poets Pub: Meet the bar with Chant poetry, where Björn is hosting the conclusion of the dVerse 10th anniversary party.

QUINTILLA (quin-teé-yuh) Spanish five-line stanza containing eight syllables per line and rhyming ababa, abbab, abaab, aabab, or aabba. Each stanza must have two rhymes (a and b) and the last two lines may not be a couplet. Originally the quintilla was called a redondilla. From the poetry dictionary, pg 235

Chant poems simply incorporate repetitive lines that form a sort of chant. Each line can repeat, or every other line. It’s easy to find many poetic forms that incorporate chanting with the use of a refrain. However, a chant poem is a little more methodical than a triolet or rondeau.