Redondilla
Spanish Quatrain

This form has a variety of choice, it can have two conventional rhyming couplets, or alternate rhyming couplets, or sandwich couplets, and uses tetrameter, (8 syllables). This gives suggested patterns of:

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To A Kiss

I look at you, held in my arms,
Looking in dark mysterious pools.
Your eyes make me break all my rules,
Fixing me with your cobra charms.

Lips touch, creating magic benign
Dull day takes on a different sight.
Feeling your warm lips melt on mine,
The day brightens, dark clouds turn white.

During a kiss, you cannot hide
With the commitment there is pride.
First holding back, then surrender
Giving in to all that splendour.

Ryter Reothicle



Again

Again a cycle spins the sky,
while snow tops glisten, moonlit eye
in watchfulness, intently clear,
awaits, as longest night draws near.

Nearby, a wistful twilight sigh,
like song of gentle lullaby,
in shades of dreams to disappear
as winter comes to commandeer.

Deer settle on the forest floor,
beyond their breath, a lapping shore.
Above, soft wings of night fall still
anticipating nature’s will.

Will winter sneak through slitted door
or thrust it open widely, roar,
"Beware, take care, north wind blows chill,
in icy swirls it curls until...?"

Until sweet harbingers of spring
rejoice with buds on opening,
with strings of ribbons on the wing,
replacing strands to start again.

Gloria Carpenter





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