Dear 'Expression' Readers...

There is Always - Something for Us to Remember...

Good Thoughts from...
Christina R. Jussaume, Poet

Terzanelle...

Heavenly Peace

A gentle feeling comes within

His light shines brightly on my soul

A gentle feeling comes within

Prayer and praise is my whispered goal

Sweet dreams I sleep safely all night

His light shines brightly on my soul

To please Him is my earthly flight

His love protects me all day long

Sweet dreams I sleep safely all night

Without my Father lost and gone

He builds me up and shows me way

His love protects me all day long

Questions of life is not my tray

For His calm brings me inner peace

He builds me up and shows me way

Joy comes to soul as all fears cease

A gentle feeling comes within

For His calm brings me inner peace

A gentle feeling comes within

- Rhoda Galgiani

  

The Terzanelle Poetry Form is a combination of the Villanelle and the Terza Rima forms - It is a 19-line poem consisting of five interlocking triplets/tercets plus a concluding quatrain in which the first and third lines of the first triplet appear as refrains - The middle line of each triplet is repeated, reappearing as the last line of the succeeding triplet with the exception of the center line of the next-to-the-last stanza which appears in the quatrain - The rhyme and refrain scheme for the triplets are as follows: 1.A 2.B 3.A 4.b 5.C 6.B 7.c 8.D 9.C 10.d 11.E 12.D 13.e 14.F 15.E - Ending Type 1: 16.f 17.A 18.F 19.A - Ending Type 2: 16.f 17.F 18.A 19.A...rg



Maurice J. Reynolds is 'Expressions' Featured Poet...

 

Festivities

They come in a variety

of forms: Thanksgiving,

Christmas, barbeques,

cookouts, celebrations

and the like.

Most often, the festivities

are a time of fun and good cheer

that bring us all together.

A family dinner reminiscing

of the time when grandma made

that delicious old fashioned

ice cream or when granddaddy

would extend his hand for a nice

handshake before giving a big

hug and asking how is everything

going in our life.

Smiles galore, plenty of food and

conversation fill the room.

Such delightful times those

festivities bring.

 

and...
 

The Heart

The heart is not always an

easy thing to figure out.

There are times when

it protects us and there are

times when it fails us.

It beats and is a living

piece of us, to be treated

with love and kindness.

Sometimes the heart causes

a lot of emotional turmoil

and sometimes it leads us to

paths of joy and happiness.

Oftentimes the heart can be

a bit unpredictable, as it can

wrestle with our emotions and

with our flesh and blood, yet

a heart devoted to God is guarded,

tucked away, and cared for so that

it knows it belongs to Him.

 

- Evangelist Maurice J. Reynolds

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Abcdarien...

Recognition

Appearance beautifully clean

declared earnest favor gained
here in just kindness lends
mirrored notes outside pane
quest range safely tacked under
victory window x-rayed
youthful zestfulness

- Rhoda Galgiani

Abcdarien Poetry Form is constrained by alphabetical order, whether forward or backward or reverse - Successive letters of the alphabet may be used to begin each word, each line, each verse acrostic, with each stanza headed by one of the letters...rg

Redondilla...

Quietly Waits

Lines upon the brow take one from

a weary place of loneliness

eyes lost their glow and are now glum

for the one who is now homeless

Turn of events leave one alone

struggle to find their place of new

body sleeps in a place not known

prays dream now is not coming true

Empty and lost of wage and home

walking the streets cold and alone

dirty and crumbled one does roam

seeks a new found beautiful throne

Quietly waits - are his prayers heard?

Ones cold cries call to his Savior

longing to hear His promised word

please forgive sinful behavior

- Rhoda Galgiani

Redondilla Poetry Form -
• syllabic, usually written in 8 syllable lines
• stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains
• rhymed, most common rhyme scheme abba
• Redondilla Stanza is one of the most popular Castillian stanzas

since the 16th century. Apparently experimentation with the form

by Ezra Pound brought about a resurgence in popularity in the
20^th century - is a Spanish poetry form...rg