Time marches on—an original dizain

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Poetry Friday is here, and so is my latest poem that I wrote with my poetry sisters.

This month, we wrote dizains. It is a ten-line form that comes originally from the French,, with a fairly simple rhyme scheme: ABABBCCDCD. Each line is 10 syllables (or, some sources say, 8-10 syllables) in length. I chose to write mine in iambic pentameter (that’s five iambs—stress pattern ta-DUM—per line).

Time marches on, and March comes to a close. A year of loss—a lost year—makes its end. We say, “And so it goes.” And so it goes. It leaves us lessons we can’t comprehend in full yet, yet we fully hope to spend our fu.png

To read the dizains written by my dear friends, head here:

Laura

Liz

Tanita

Sara

Tricia

Poetry Friday is being hosted by Susan Bruck at Soul Blossom Living.