On Water Rests

by Treischel

On water rests the wayward bird,
Its piercing cry is overheard
Across the bay, across the land.
Its wing-borne ways are never planned.
It wanders where its thoughts concurred.

Unlike the seagull's rest, I'm stirred,
To scatter freedom as preferred.
These ashes made by death's demand
On water rests.

So to the air was love transferred,
In honor of her dying word.
Tears mingle with the waves and sand,
As her burnt essence left my hand.
A soul now strewn, to wind conferred,
On water rests.

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Spreading a loved one's ashes on the water.

This poem is a Rondeau.
A Rondeau is a fixed form of French repeating poetry. It is often used in light or witty poems. It often has fifteen lines with three stanzas. It usually only has two rhymes (a & b) used in the poem. A word or words from the first part of the first line are used as a refrain ending the second and third stanzas.

The rhyme scheme, then, is;
aabba aabR aabbaR.

This picture was taken by the author himself on October 1, at Lake Pepin, Minnesota.

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On Water Rests

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