Dear Mitch Albom: A Ronsardian Ode*

Dear Mitch Albom: A Ronsardian Ode*

A reader for delight that was once me,
until I stumble
upon your words that made me clearly see
letters tremble.
Tremble with meaning of life, death, beyond,
overflow with truth humans must respond,
touch hearts alive,
old souls revived;
your written words, I will always be fond.

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©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved.

Photo credit: Anastasia Zhenina

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MITCH ALBOM is an internationally renowned and best-selling author, journalist, screenwriter, playwright, radio and television broadcaster and musician. His books have collectively sold more than 35 million copies worldwide; have been published in forty-nine territories and in forty-five languages around the world; and have been made into Emmy Award-winning and critically-acclaimed television movies.

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In response to Daily Post: Handwriting and Napowrimo Day 3.

 

Today, let’s turn our vision outward, and write fan letters. I challenge you to write a poem in the form of a fan letter to a celebrity.

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*Ronsardian Ode

The Ronsardian Ode is:

• stanzaic, written in any number of 9 line stanzas.
• syllabic, 10-4-10-4-10-10-4-4-8 syllables per line.
• rhymed, rhyme scheme ababccddc.