Poetic Form: Dansa
She sits waiting forever
Pining is sweet sorrow, and the eyes speak their own tale
People hustle about unmindful of one so frail
Strong bonds forged over years strain to sever
She sits waiting forever
Around every corner, she seeks hope like a holy grail
Patience a virtue she has long mastered on every trail
A fool on a hill, her eyes moist never
She sits waiting forever
Rain, sun, and hard shale affect not the optimism of her tail
Breaking news of her loved one’s demise hits her like a gale
Her wet fur and floppy ears and a head so clever
Yet, she sits waiting forever
A poem following the dansa poetic form of a quintain (AbbaA) followed by quatrains (bbaA). The first line of the first verse repeats at the end of each verse including the first verse.
Poetic Form: Curtal Sonnet
Light as a feather, she skips in joyful abandon
Unmindful of the hungry eyes that devour her
A shadow of darkness falls on the unbridled gaiety
Wings of gilded gold spread like an airborne mansion
Darkened trees fear to stir
Bow in obeisance to the descending diety
In that instant, she knows she is but a fool in the rain
Too late to escape the talons of destiny, now a blur
Cruel and determined, with power so mighty
She accepts her fate and that she will be slain
A little bird in a life of brevity
An 11-line curtal sonnet with the rhyme pattern a b c a b c d b c d c
Poetic Form: Decima
Ed flicks a spec from his red coat
Snow white beard trimmed to perfection
Looking for a new direction
Stores closed, yet he carries his tote
Ambles down to his little boat
In the old dock, a lonely child
Hungry in eyes and hair so wild
Toys, Ed springs from the trusty sack
Such a joyful smile he gets back
His heart happy by one beguiled
Decima has many forms. This poem uses the Puerto Rican form with eight syllables per line and with a rhyme pattern ABBAACCDDC, for a total of ten lines.
Double Acrostic Poem
Chaos
Flying by night one sees the grim faces in the naked light of grief
Moribund vehicles zig-zagging with no thought of harm
Green and blue in the distance beckon the travelers away for long
Hasty and fiery, they return in a rush
Crowding the space that one thought was infinite in its arc
Lights appear to guide the crafts in arrangements so floral
Even in landing on the home planet, the wait is indefinite
Smooth though the landing, the world is still in chaos
Poetry Form: Double Acrostic
Calamitous
The heart splits asunder with a single thought
How have you turned the sky into the earth
Where stars tread in your angelic shadow
Meandering are my days navigating the strands of your charm
Limitless in passion, unending like streets of floral
Every fiber of my being throbs for that surreptitious glance
For it is you who makes my life devoid of grief
Such a potpourri of conundrums, you leave my soul calamitous
