Day 6 Prompt: Change
Form: Diminishing Poem
“Yesterday”
I miss her presence sitting in the chair
next to me. Windows open, her hair
blowing in the late summer air.
I still use the oversized coffee cup,
she gave me when I wanted to give up
this writing life. Today is not...
It’s hard living through history
Watching the days fill the pages
Never understanding glory
No maps for this territory
All books burn in the dark ages
It’s hard living through history
Tomorrow is an allegory
Holding lock and key to cages
Never understanding glory
Today’s prayer for purgatory
Draws the thin line for war to rage
It’s hard living through history
Yesterday left a scar’s gory
Lesson to see life in stages
Never understanding glory
Only the clock’s auditory
Echo through time pays the wages
It’s hard living through history
Never understanding glory
Poetic Form #67: Villanelle
The villanelle consists of five tercets and a quatrain using a
simple A / B rhyming scheme. The first and third lines of the first
stanza are refrains that repeat throughout the poem, alternating
as the last line of the rest of the tercets. The final quatrain ends
with the refrains. I created lines with 8 syllables. I found contradicting
information about having a set syllable rule for the lines.
