The Poetic Musings of Dawn

la courante (#75)

Cookie Time

There is only one thing
that can fix me today.
Can't fight or find a way
against constant culinary craving.
I clutch my knees up against my chest, trembling,
in a tight fetal pose.
I'm haunted by a harsh demand,
voices command
submission, I chose.
Cookies, candied joy,
my chocolate Eden
time has come to get my fix and enjoy.

It's like an addiction,
one I cannot fracture.
Giving in to rapture
never able to follow restriction
being an eager addict is my affliction.
Relaxed, now giving in
to the temptation once again.
trembles stop, then
continue my sin.
Cookies, employ
feelings of pleasant zen
brought out by sweet chocolate coated joy.



"La Courante was a dance in the baroque period. Paul Scarron wrote in this form; in France it is known as one of the first classic free verse poems.
This poem is formed by two stanzas. The first stanza is model for the second stanza. In a way a kind of refrain is visible in the last three lines of the second stanza.

Rhyme scheme and syllables...

The syllables in the Courante
line:
1 - 6
2 - 6
3 - 6
4 - 10
5 - 12
6 - 6
7 - 8
8 - 4
9 - 5
10 - 4
11 - 6
12 - 10

The rhyme can be divided in three parts. Scarron "played" with it in the second stanza, but as general you can keep this in your mind:
a/b/b/a/a c/d/d/c e/d/e"