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I search for Beauty everywhere:
Beyond the pane, a sunbird -
I have heard
A shrill song, sweet and strong
Like a dream recurred
I wait for Beauty's glimmer:
Flashing green shimmer.
Life teaches us to face despair:
A dusk without hope of light
Dismal sight -
'Til the star shines afar
And kestrels take flight
High above our village spires
Sweeping in wide gyres.
When my day seems dull and endless,
My spirit wearily old:
Heart of gold,
Halo bright, creamy white -
Narcissus blooms bold
Lifting a poised, fragile face
Of eternal Grace.
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This poem was previously published on Skylover, written October 2009.
It is in the style of Paul Laurence Dunbar's Melancholia.
Painting sourced here:
flashing green shimmer with song, kestrels, and Narcissus--beyond the pane and the pain--beauty again, still. I like the seven lines with a pause built into the third, love the play of rhyme 3 ends, then 2 in each stanza. There is Beauty here.
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ReplyDeleteThanks, Susan. This is a little peek ahead to Sunday's form challenge.
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Deleteand I heard it in the poem
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ahhh, pretty. you know i'm looking forward to tackling this :)
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DeleteIt's quite a challenge to get one's ideas to fit this form, but there is something satisfying about making it work.
Beautiful form Kerry ~ I like the searching for beauty of the first stanza, then the focus on the fragile face in the last stanza ~
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DeleteIt is quite beautiful, I agree.
When my day seems dull and endless,
ReplyDeleteMy spirit wearily old:
Heart of gold,
Halo bright, creamy white -
Narcissus blooms bold
Wonderful write in the stated form challenge! Beautiful verse Kerry! One gets the feeling when down there is always salvation in the form of an inspiring object! Nicely!
Hank
Thank you, Hank. How wonderful to learn that you took something from these words with you.
DeleteA poem filled with beauty and aptly titled. A spirit cannot fail to soar when seeing kestrels, and the narcissus blooms with a "fragile face of eternal grace". Beautiful, Kerry.
ReplyDeleteSometimes the very tenacity of nature is all that inspires hope.
DeleteWow, Kerry this is beautiful~ So full of hope!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoyed it, Ellen.
DeleteThe form is especially beautiful in your capable hands. k.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks, k.
DeleteImage and words in perfect balance,in pite of this demanding format.
ReplyDeleteIt is a little tricky to work the rhymes into the shorter lines, I find.
DeleteThose who can't do, come and see how Kerry did it! It's so true how simple, beautiful things can cheer one. They are priceless.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Shay. This is a rare compliment for one of your hated forms. ;-)
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