PAD 2022 Day 19: What's There

 This poem is presented in its rough draft form for the PAD 2022 challenge and will be revised. 

PAD Prompt: What’s There

Poetic Form: Gogyohka

“Trap”

The trap door opens

Then closes

Leaving us together

Nothing else to hold

So we call it love

Poetic Form 92: Ottava Rima

 A Better Yesterday

She waits for something more than paper cards.

Written words of affections look so nice

when printed in mass. Love is discarded

with the scraps from dinner. She’ll sacrifice

flowers for a kiss that sets her off guard.

She wants a romance felt more than just twice

a year. She believes in those high school notes,

signed with a heart. Regret tightens her throat.

Poetic Form #92: Ottava Rima

The ottava rima is an Italian from. Lord Byron used this form to write Don Juan. 

The ottava rima form has 8 lines with an abababcc rhyme pattern. It is commonly

 written in iambic pentameter or 10-syllable lines. The form can be a stand alone 

poem, or with any number of stanzas.

Poetic Form 65: Decima

 

From Ashes

She opens a shoe box filled to

the brim with letters she never

sent. He always called from Denver

when he needed to fight the hue

of loneliness his searching drew.

She ignites a match to penned guards,

letting pain burn the house of cards

down to the ashes staining her

spirit. “Love will not be deferred,”

she whispers, cutting free his barbs.

Poetic Form 65: Decima

There are various versions of the Decima poetic form. The form I used is popular 

in Puerto Rico. The form has 10 lines with 8 syllables per line. The form has the 

following rhyme scheme:

A

B

B

A

A

C

C

D

D

C

 

Poetic Form 64: Terzanelle

 

Just

I swear your tomorrows will not be the same.

Let me show you the true definition of forever.

Just kiss me like you don’t know his name.

Open your hands, release the smell of his letters.

We can find our way to being lost.

Let me show you the true definition of forever.

Exhale all the sweet nothings he whispered soft.

Lift your eyes when you hear my name.

We can find our way to being lost.

Place his midnight gaze in a flame, 

burn away the weight of his promise.

Lift your eyes when you hear my name.

My arms are strong enough for you to find solace.

I’ll mend all the tears he left behind,

burn away the weight of his promise.

Walk with me, who knows what we will find.

I swear your tomorrows will not be the same.

I’ll mend all the tears he left behind.

Just kiss me like you don’t know his name.

Poetic Form #64: Terzanelle

The terzanelle form combines aspects of the villanelle and the terza rima. 

The form has nineteen lines, with five triplets and a concluding quatrain. The second 

line of each triplet stanza is repeated as the third line in the following stanza.  

The first and third lines of the first stanza are the second and final lines of the

concluding quatrain. Traditional terzanelle poems use a consistent iambic meter,

but I did not use that in my poem. 

The form is as follows:

A(1) B A(2)

b C B

c D C

d E D

e F E

f A(1) F A(2)

Poetic Form 44: Sijo

It’s not fair, the way you hold from day to night. Left then right,

a passion for the touch of togetherness found by blue light.

Too many screens fill our world view, alone we text as friends fail.

Poetic Form #44: Sijo

A sijo is a traditional three-line Korean poetic form. Each of the three lines average 
14-16 syllables, for a total of 44-46 syllables. The first line is usually written in 
a 3-4-4-4 pattern and states the theme of the poem. The second line builds on the 
theme and is usually written in a 3-4-4-4 pattern, too. The third line is divided into 
two sections; the counter-theme (or twist), is grouped as 3-5, while the second part,
the conclusion, is written as 4-3.

Poetry Challenge Day 3: Follow (blank)

Follow Me Down

Decide now if it is worth it

Of everything we can be

We won’t be the same after this

Now, or forever

Darkness is part of the choice

Over the past, I can only

Wish to forget the scars

Needled into my future

Dedicated to follow me

On the promise that nothing

Weakens our grip during the

Nights we will have to endure

With only a single flame to

Enlighten the corners of doubt

For I need to show you the stars

Are there like vows

Let me lead you down

Like we will live forever