Poetic Form 71: Seguidilla

 Should

Nothing feels the same now that

I forgot your skin,

the way your eyes filled my words

scribbled on the fringe.

I left those notebooks

in a damaged box taped shut

with a poem of should.

Poetic Form #71: Seguidilla

The Spanish form, Seguidilla, started as a dance song before becoming an

established poetic form. The poem has 7 lines with the following syllable count

for each line: 7-5-7-5-5-7-5. There is an assonance rhyme between lines 2 and 4

and another one between lines 5 and 7. There is a pause between lines 4 and 5

and a tone or focus changes between the same lines.