Poetry Forms
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Because you said you loved me more, O, how could those big brown eyes lie? The pretty red flags I ignored. Our cottage perched along Maine’s shore— Some called it a pie in the sky, Because you said you loved me more. Then one day I found on the floor, A love note meant just
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I drove past your house yesterday Pumpkins, bare twigs; a chilly breeze Quite an unsettling shade of gray. Paused before going on my way To watch an oak tree shed its leaves I drove past your house yesterday. Squirrels scampering, hard at play Leaping wildly from roof to tree Quite an unsettling shade of gray.
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Memories of you, of us, obscured and steeped in a blur of dusty fog and fuzzy cobwebs. Shadows of a distant past — sometimes half-forgotten — sometimes half-remembered but always just out of reach like missing pieces of a dream that likely belonged to someone else.
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Today at the dVerse Poets pub it’s Sestina time! This complex form contains six stanzas, each with six lines and concludes with a three line envoi. The pattern of the form is as follows: 1. A,B,C,D,E,F 2. F,A,E,B,D,C 3. C,F,D,A,B,E 4. E,C,B,F,A,D 5. D,E,A,C,F,B 6. B,D,F, E,C,A 7. BE, DC, FA (The envoi of three
Ergo, the Ogre 