F is for Fish and Footle

It's April, so the Blogging from AtoZ Challenge is in full swing. My theme is Watercolor and Words.  This year I am painting a watercolor to go with each letter and composing a poem to accompany it with a type of poetry that starts with the letter of the day.  I am mostly experimenting with the watercolors still, so don't expect perfection....

Clicking on the letter of the day will bring you to the main site which has links to get to other participants if you would like to go on an alphabetical adventure!

 

 

Today is our 6th day of the Blogging from AtoZ Challenge.

I have chosen to paint a fish and write a Footle poem for F.

A Footle poem is VERY short.  It's almost seems like cheating.  It was actually harder to make it short than it would have been to stretch it out into a full blown sonnetty or ballady thing.  

A Footle is used to express a thought: a kind of finalizing a point.  Its definition is longer than it is.  It's a trochaic monometer, which I am told means it is written in a foot, which is only two syllables.  Simply said, there are two rhyming lines of two syllables each, and a title, though I've seen them without the title.

A fish can be short or long.  And they have no syllables but they do have gills.

Fish Chowder

Caught fish

Soup dish

by Donna JT Smith ©2025

 

And here's three I strung together to make a different one:

Fish Chowder

Fish fought

Still caught

 
Fish dead

'Nuf said

Boiled fish

Soup dish

by Donna JT Smith ©2025

 

Tomorrow is G...giraffe, goat, gorilla, garage, garden...I have to get going... I'm not ready yet!  

I have to write a poem and paint a picture.