Summer Sunshine

All the cozy- tender things,

from the summer field I gather,

some sparkling rays, petals of spring,

and a few down feathers.

I weave them into a soft shawl,

gently adorning emotions pure,

it’ll warm your winter whole,

with hopeful promises to assure.

Securely tuck it in your heart,

love and affection will fill inside,

warmness exudes its every part,

soft prayers within strands hide.

Sweet Desert Rose: Tritina

Wild, dry, lonesome, yet sweet,

a wandering child is the desert,

harsh or favonian winds, it smiles like a rose.

Crystalline sand petals remind of the true rose,

each particle immersed in memories salty and sweet,

beauty spirals through this rose in the wilderness of desert.

Along with the sun rejoices the desert,

for its companion is the rose,

into the world, wind blows this story so sweet.

Truth full companion to desert is the sweet desert rose.

Tritina : It comprises of three stanzas using the same three words in a Sestina like pattern, and a final line which uses the three words in the starting sequence:

A.. B.. C...

C.. A.. B...

B.. C.. A...

A,B,C...

I Will Never Abandon You

Within the tough walls of the castle,
lives a broken soul,

loved by none and no one to applaud.

Weird ways of this world,
wither his heart,

harsh words pierce like dart.

Winter 's chill is here forever,

dry emotions leave never.

Detested by others, he hides,

nobody to walk beside.

But, I know how gentle you are inside,

tender feelings deep in you reside.

An ocean of love you hold,

filled with purity of gold.

No matter what the world says,

you are here to stay.

Let me hold your hand,

to make a promise ,

that,

I will never abandon you.

The Scent of Water: Decuain

Nature’s ceaseless sequence of life and death,

relishing rebirth, grief, joy, loss, glum,

goes on smoothly with each and every  breath.

Like a gentle song of the wind to hum,

to atrocities  never it succumbs.

The scent of water nurtures this bud,

deep within from heart’s ocean it comes,

engulfing the soul in its vast flood.

Whole body, bones, cells, tissues, flesh, blood,

flow back to their motherly earthen mud.

Fresh whiff of warm celestial heavenly breeze,

and some good, useful extraordinary deeds,

melt the painful past and stiff karmic freeze.

Leaving behind the sun, moon, stars, greed,

moving ahead, except love nothing to need,

a renewed soul emerges from the ground,

demands only emotions to feed.

Onto a new enriching journey, it’s bound,

faith, prayers, devotion will again resound

the nature’s cycle goes round and round.

  

The Decuain (pronounced deck•won), created by Shelley A. Cephas, is a short poem made up of 10 lines, which can be written on any subject. 10 syllables per line, written in iambic pentameter.

There are 3 set choices of rhyme scheme:

ababbcbcaa, ababbcbcbb, or ababbcbcc

Time’s Wind: Envelope Quintet

Sailing on time’s wind,

I pass through many stages,

right from birth to ripening ages,

turning one by one life’s pages,

stimulating memories forward and  behind.

As I sift the sands of time,

sadness, happiness, hatred, love fill my eyes,

a few words  hurt and a few sound wise,

like oceanic tides they rise,

I discard painful emotions, take the ones that rhyme.

The wind settles,

calm in my heart I find,

serenity invades mind,

 I remember his gestures so kind,

life is all about contentment and rolling blissful pebbles.

Envelope Quintet (Italian) is a 5 line verse in which the center lines are enclosed by the rhyme of the outer lines.Rhyme scheme:  abbba or  abcba or aabaa 

A Forest Path: Goethe Stanza

A beautiful forest path I trail,

lined by lavender flowers,

their fragrances in my heart prevail,

I walk bare foot for countless hours.

Tall, mighty trees cover the dusty track,

soft breeze peeps through canopies,
twirling leaves across zodiac,

birds flicker around relish sweet berries.

Carpet of green grass rolls all over,

gently welcoming sweet songs of forest,

adding to it a tinge of falvour the wild clover,

bees dance around singing chorus.

A lovely walk to remember,

heart of a forest so tender,

gloriously it shines as an ember.

A natures’ marvelous splendour.

Goethe Stanza : 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.

 x x x x x x x a

x x x x x x x b

x x x x x x x a

x x x x x x x b

A Secret Garden: Canzonet

My heart is a garden,

a secret flower grows there,

away from prying eyes so hardened.

Its seeds sprinkled from somewhere.

Going down the memory lane,

I remember your glimpse,

how your smile brings rain,

leaving on my heart your love’s imprints.

Every day I water this flower,

with dreams of tomorrow,

thinking about us wherever we are,

only hope as my guide to follow.

You’ll never know about my love’s riddle,

Or my heart skipping a beat with your glimpse,

Or turning my soul’s sea with a ripple,

leaving on my heart your love’s imprints.

The Canzonet is a lyric poem of varying line length and metrical patterns. It consists of at least two octaves, and each octave uses a series of alternating couplets. The last line or last phrase is repeated in each stanza of the subsequent stanzas. The rhyme scheme is thus:a. b. a. b. c. d. c. D.