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Come Pan, now blow your magic flute,
nighttime's fair folk will execute
moves mesmerizing at a glance ~
Mystical meadow creatures dance.
Where centaurs bold and fairies bright
come play together in the night,
under the smiling moon they prance.
Mystical meadow creatures dance.
By this ritual, when performed,
the landscape's nature is transformed.
A change that's for the good, perchance ~
Mystical meadow creatures dance.
Come Pan, now blow your magic flute,
Mystical meadow creatures dance.
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Author Notes
This, as with all my poetry, is dedicated to the memory of my son, John Martin McKernan IV (Mickey).
A Kyrielle Sonnet consists of 14 lines (three rhyming quatrain stanzas and a non-rhyming couplet). Just like the traditional Kyrielle poem, the Kyrielle Sonnet also has a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing as the last line of each stanza). Each line within the Kyrielle Sonnet consists of only eight syllables. French poetry forms have a tendency to link back to the beginning of the poem, so common practice is to use the first and last line of the first quatrain as the ending couplet. This would also re-enforce the refrain within the poem. Therefore, a good rhyming scheme for a Kyrielle Sonnet would be:
AabB, ccbB, ddbB, AB -or- AbaB, cbcB, dbdB, AB.
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