Written for:  Go Dog Go Cafe, Donna Matthews challenge:
A Rondeau

"The rondeau has a refrain and rhymes–two elements of many French poems. The traditional rondeau is a poem consisting of 3 stanzas, 13 original lines, and 2 refrains (of the first line of the poem) with 8 to 10 syllables per line and an A/B rhyme scheme."

The skeleton of the traditional rondeau looks like this:

A(R) – A – B – B – A

A – A – B – A(R)

A – A – B – B – A – A(R)


The world lives steeped in greed.
All activities run on speed,
honking horns, road rage drivers
carry guns if need arises.
Better race when that light turns green.

They want to see you bleed
for interfering with their need.
They'll cut you off, those connivers.
The world lives steeped in greed.

You wonder why their egos feed
on the need to be in the lead.
You usually find they have priors
and skid marks on their tires.
Road–ragers are a violent breed;
the world lives steeped in greed.

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