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Tag Archives: sestina
What is Love: sestina
Is love a thing that lasts, or a mere trinket, a toy that fascinates until it bores, a passing fancy, or eternal compact between two souls and never any more, a gift from gods above, or social stricture meant as … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, eternity, French verse forms, illusion, love, perception, poetic forms, sestina, substance
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Stars at Night: a sestina
To look out at the stars at night against a distant tapestry of endless black, that seems to spread beyond our fickle sense of time and stretch the limits of our sense to breaking, is to feed a dream. No … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, dreams, night, poetic forms, sestina, stars, timelessness
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Carport Cacophony: a sestina
Under the carport, inhaling from my last cigarette another drag, I listen to the voices rise and fall through the window, their cadence and cascade a soft counterpoint of sound, muffled through the closed glass; here and there I catch … Continue reading