I felt it when you smiled with your eyes,
an unexpected change in the weather —
a shifting in the grey and winter skies.
I noticed as we sipped our tea together,
the scent of wind and ozone on your skin,
clouded with the coming change in weather.
Your clever tease, my blush and mild chagrin
they set my pulse to flight like startled birds.
I smelled the wind and ozone on your skin.
Our kindred appetites for rhyme and words
caught up in frozen time, melted it seems.
darted between us quick, like winging birds.
My laughter flowed with yours in steady streams —
the jealous sun arrested in his climb,
slowed time to stare at us a while, it seems
You kindled curiosity sublime.
Your smile persistent, slipped into my eyes.
Though pale, the sun grew quicker in his climb —
I left you, warmed beneath the winter skies.
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POETIC FORM: TERZANELLE
The Terzanelle combines the lyricism of Terza Rima with the repetition of the Villanelle, in 19 lines.Traditionally lines should be written in a consistient iambic meter. The rhyme and refrain order is as follows:
A1
B
A2
b
C
B
c
D
C
d
E
D
e
F
E
f
A1
F
A2
For more information, see: Robert Lee Brewer’s Poetic Asides blog post on the Terzanelle.
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