August 27, 2013

Minute Poetry...




Silent View
 
Sleep bring dreams to the aging mind
Past youthful time
When life was long
Hearts sang their song
 
Memories come to silent view
Dreaming of you
Young lovers bring
Hot summer fling
 
Awaken suddenly this night
I feel my plight
Lonely as one
No place to run 
 
© Rhoda Galgiani
  
Minute Poetry Form is a style of rhyming verses consisting of 12 lines
of 60 syllables written in strict iambic meter - The poem is formatted into
3 stanzas of 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4; 8,4,4,4 syllables - The rhyme scheme is as
follows: aabb, ccdd, eeff...rg