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2019 Poetry Form Challenge03 Goethe StanzaA very different poetry form than most poets are used to, is the Goethe Stanza. With this one each stanza comprises of a single line, a couplet and a single line. Each single line rhymes with a line from the couplet, one starting and one completing the stanza. Here is the suggested pattern, there is no set meter:
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Terry ClitheroeI always love the early autumn With dying leaves of Gold and Brown The fallen leaves upon the lawn A crinkled patchwork eiderdown. So on life goes ad infinitum A time of rest for all that's grown To Earth a time of sleep has come Is wearing now a drab nightgown Some beasts also prepare their home Gathering what summer has grown Soon they'll sleep instead of roam With the dead leaves now a throne. The day still warm the nights now cold A pleasant time where life can relax Indeed a place of memories to behold, Looking forward always to go back.  ----- Foolish Dreams Slave to his temporal sight The mad fool dreams once more Far into the late, late night He steps through that phantom door. Wings spread in his desperate plight The mad fool dreams once more Soaring heavenwards to the light Airborne through the lands of yore. Flying forth with all his might The mad fool dreams once more Reaching Heaven as some fool might Past all the sane that went before.  ----- Goodnight It is now that special time of night The muse has me and taken o'er control. The mood is softened by wine and light There is no time or need to think at all. She reminds me of the past and loves lost And at last a love that makes me whole Knowing thus, gladly will I meet the cost One I know too well has touched my soul The music is softer now, thinking of you Even more the wine has softened the mood There is just one final act I have to do Enough of life today I have viewed My last thought "I love you" I have to say But you're not there it's impossible it seems My eyes are ready to close it's the end of day I smile knowing that you're in my dreams.  ----- Hold My Hand Hold my hand for a little while longer My love for you makes me bid you stay. They say absence makes love grow stronger But lovers shouldn't have to go away? Have they ever felt they were torn in two, Then seen sunshine turn to dullest day, And rain clouds replace a sky of clearest blue And watched the best part carried away? No hope or prayer can ever ease that pain Until then only patience is your saving grace Or speed up time should they return again. Awaiting the time that you'll see the face Looking to when I see you walk my way That'll tear the gloom from my leaded heart Brightening the sun on any clouded day And with you living once again can start.  ----- Questions of Love - My Response Enjoy the mystery that the moon inspires, Walk down paths you have never trod Perhap's to where hope and love never tires Where your experiences you may applaud. You must take your heart in your hand And surrender yourself to love completely In return it will offer you all that is grand You will create and live your life sweetly It will paint you a thousand pictures That will offer you a million experiences Of so many people and of their cultures In time realising there are no differences. You will write your loving words eternally The final days are just thoughts so sublime Finding your love goes right into infinity And memory is forever caused by time.  ----- Raindrops As I walk along this path, a raindrop From a falling leaf lights upon my cheek. It runs down my face and doesn't stop It feels like it is from somewhere bleak Then anonymously falls to the ground Where in time it will gather in a pool In that greyness there will be no sound But the winter solstice is never cruel. It is the end of death and Autumn And with each new morn there is hope Wondering what each day will become And realising that we can cope I see there's a bridge made by the leaves Showing their death will build the future Petals from flowers show they to believe What more do we need to ensure?  ----- XXXXXXX XXXXXXX ----- X as in Kiss Your opal eyes peer into mine I feel them searching my soul As if by magic it starts to shine I now know the feeling of being whole. Just one look has made it so What would a touch or kiss then start? A deluge of words and deeds would flow And who knows what path we'd chart? A future guided by your opal eyes And two shining souls by love united With these acts there would be no surprise Together to Nirvana we'd be invited.  ----- Zilch tonight Tonight my words fall dead upon the floor Ignore them, they were of no use anyway. Another syllable, statement, stanza bore Destroyed by an overworked mind today. Ideas lined up against the execution wall The inner critic had offered no blindfolds Then inspiration took aim and fired at will Another senseless act of violence unfolds. Of bullets, aimed and hitting the target When that stanza met the final solution Another battalion of words stepped up Unready for their impending execution. What was wreaked upon poetic thought Had once again earned another cascade, Being stressed it had brought me naught Save to hide somewhere of blackest shade.  back to list |
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