General Poetry posted September 3, 2024


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Rain Dance

by Patrick Bernardy

 
 
                                       Invoke a soothing rain, a quenching sip. 
                                       A dance to cause the god of wither pain 
                                       and nerve to steal his desiccating whip. 
                                       —Invoke a soothing rain. 
 
                                       Voracious vines and reaching roots regain 
                                       their drive for growth and push with thirsty tip 
                                       to drink their fill as drops descend arcane. 
 
                                       The land's enthralled—this dancer’s swaying hip 
                                       that wills the storm to wet the weakened plain. 
                                       The god of wither, vanquished, curls his lip. 
                                       —Invoke a soothing rain.
 
 
 
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ROUNDEL -- This form has eleven lines constructed from two quatrains and a triplet. The rhyme scheme consists of only two rhymes and a refrain, which is made from the first phrase of the first line. The convention is for the second line to rhyme with the refrain:
BabaB ... bab ... abaB

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