a reasonnet*
A'waiting once more the wonders at dawn,
a tired, empty muse paces the lawn
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acrostic with a secret
Siesta - the time when every
Living mortal rests at mid-day.
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blank verse, prayer
I am anxious and naturally I turn to you, my God.
I want your answer now but I am learning to wait in peace.
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Do not wish on dandelions
makes a difference if you're Mayans.
Their winds blow through sacred tree,
the pod and seed.
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1. a partridge in a pear tree
Bird much loved for its tasty flesh,
of its spirit have we no thought?
Worship the Christ Child in the crèche
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Subtitle: Boys Will Be Boys
Male internal combustion knock
has much to do with raw fuel.
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a monchielle*
“I am all that you need.”
I detect a low voice,
...
I hear the voice of Genesis
speaking words of creation…
Let it be – light, shine in darkness,
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Little girl child,
let me sing you a melody
a song to last
from now throughout eternity.
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sestet, ABCBDB
It is well-known that caterpillars
must gobble more and more each day
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7/5 trochee (see below)
Doubt tries hard to take the scene.
Great Selene shines new
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B.C., seven hundred seventy-six
was the date of the first Olympic picks.
They spanned (these sportsmanship pioneers)
one thousand, one hundred, sixty-nine years.
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a pantoum
Some sixty years past my Paw owned a store.
A penny case held tiny toys and balloons
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canzonetta
Sweet great grandmother stitched history on cloth;
on samplers she published family events.
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Writer's Block
a reasonnet*
A'waiting once more the wonders at dawn,
a tired, empty muse paces the lawn
struck dumb by notions refusing to spawn.
The new day arrives but dark does not lift,
an overcast sky now leaves her short shrift
as lab'rers head home from serving night shift.
Some fifteen young bards pass her toiling there
speaking but speeding away from her care
to places of rest, to places of prayer.
Five run to the woods, four break to a stroll,
three watch a mare giving birth to a foal,
two quarrel and bicker, one friend bares his soul.
All busy with life these bards quickly pen
scores of sonnets read again and again.
A reasonnet is my private version of the sonnet form with the rhyming pattern, aaa, bbb, ccc, ddd, ee