A Simple Cyhydedd fer

Writer's Cramp entry: Silly poem about writng a Cyhydedd Fer (Welsh)

Prompt: Write a Cyhydedd fer, any topic

Cyhydedd fer: (pronounced "cuh-hee-dedd ver") A rhymed couplet of 8-syllable lines; any number of stanzas



Attempting a Cyhydedd Fer
I hoped to find a simple word

A simple word to simply rhyme
That simply sounded soft, sublime

Poetic verse is hard enough
Without a form to make it tough

The Welsh must think they're pretty smart
My poem is done without a start

         Eight syllables in every line
         And then each line must intertwine

         These interwoven couplets form
         This wooly poem of Celtic norm

How many couplets should there be?
It doesn't matter much to me

I sit here like a daffodill
Thinking, drinking, searching still

I simply need a simple word
nearly rhyming "Cyhydedd Fer"