Tackling the Sestina Challenge........~SpaceCase

I set out to write just one sestina
Even if it drives me out of my mind
Reading it will make you crazy
Understanding it is impossible
I'll make your head ache
But you will appreciate my attempts
Because you've made your own attempts

While I'm hashing out this sestina
My scribbling hand begins to ache
Transfering such thoughts from my mind
Is next to and oh so nearly impossible
Please don't think I'm crazy
Although I know I'm crazy

How appropriate, my elementary attempts
Will conquer, for nothing is impossible
Even the challenge of a daring sestina
Though continiously racking my mind
Brings on quite the familiar ache
Oh yes, my back and hands ache

Will you still call me crazy?
Will you still question my mind?
Will you just laugh at my attempts?
Will you understand my sestina?
Will you think me impossible?
Will you think this impossible?

Your answers ease the inner ache
As you dance wildly to my sestina
Maybe we are all a little crazy
To step up and make such attempts
Echoing warnings in my weary mind
Fears of judgement sneak into my mind

What I once thought was impossible
With less than two attempts
I stretched through the ache
And deemed myself crazy
Before finishing this sestina

My first and last attempts
Because it almost drove me crazy
To get to the last word of this sestina



>SpaceCase<

below is what I was given...I am not sure if I followed the pattern correctly, but above is my interpretation of the sestina...which sounds more like a nap or siesta to me ;)


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sestina: fun with word order. pick 6 words (any, but mixing up with at least one verb and two adjectives). there are six stanzas of six lines each capped with one stanza of three lines. every line must end with the appropriate word. so if your words are a)bruise, b) run, c) sleazy, d) brackish, e) knee, and f) beer----the line order is a, b, c, d, e, f---f, a, e, b, d, c---c, f, d, a, b, e---e, c, b, f, a, d---d, e, a, c, f, b---b, d, f, e, c, a---last three lines then mix it up where you use at least one different word in each line or all six of them split up where ever you feel the need to. the last three lines are the climax. hope that helps (sestina, mind, crazy, impossible, ache, attempts

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