Poetic Form 66: Ae Freislighe

Silent Night

I know what your emptiness

means for us in this moment.

Like a lost child’s faithfulness,

waiting for that wrapped present

under the tree, sorrowful

tears sting soft cheeks on Christmas.

Knowing there’s no tomorrow,

only a promise, because

I unwrapped your compromised

kisses under the darkness

of letters you plagiarized.

I know your love is starless.

Poetic Form#66: Ae Freislighe

The Irish poetic form, Ae Freislighe, is an intense rhyming form. It is 

constructed with quatrain stanzas (4-line stanzas) with 7 syllables 

per line. Lines 1 and 3 rhyme with three syllables (xxa) and lines 2 

and 4 rhyme with two syllables (xb). The final syllable, word, or line 

of the entire poem is the same as the beginning of the poem. The poem 

can be one stanza or as long as the poet wants.