Too many decisions, too few choices
Hues
contrast faces, Lines fade voice
In corridors of conundrum
Conversations break then hide
Where
colors crawl to die
Dreams tend to falter
When blinding view
Oh, so cruel
Can you
Be
A
story takes on many shapes and forms
Idling between grandiosity
And tepid legends running worn
Leaving watermarks and tears
Atop the lost word’s brown
Misguided guilt glides
Un-gently down
The Spines of
Seams once
bound
Lost tears saved, amassed
in a Mason’s jar—
Commingling with the saddening stares
Is a
lonely state, too pronounced
To
shy, too painful to bear—
When
hearts become hardened
Thoughts
often feign sick—
Who
then, Who Will
Care
for these
Unknown
Tears?
A feeble meandering at midnight
Infamously thrusts maleficence
Into
familiar tones of grey—
Wearing masks, attaching to
Parts carefully concealed
As if the shadows
Can preclude us
Willfully—
Without
Cost
Over at D'Verse, Form-for-All is in full effect by now. Tonight we were introduced to a Welsh verse known as the Englyn. I have to admit, I gave it the old 15 years removed from college try, but unfortunately, I kept getting stuck, again and again and again. Eventually I had to walk away, perhaps return to the form in a day or so, where hopefully a fresher mind will prevail.
I definitely urge you to head on over though, hopefully you'll have better luck with it then I did. It's a shame I couldn't get it down tonight, as reading through what's linked up, it does produce some really neat and fun poems. The article is fantastic too, spells it out for you, gives some history, examples and plenty of links for further research. It's so thorough, that I'm sure it's not as hard as I found it to be, one of those things I guess. Perhaps one of those things where you go back and wonder how you struggled the first go-round. Anyhow, definitely give it a try, but certainly read what the others have linked up, I think you'll enjoy yourself.
That all said, I thought I'd stick to the overall Form theme tonight and decided to remain in the syllabic state of mind as well. I went with Descending Verse and did 4 descending poems, 10, 9, 8….1. Always a good time with these, and super simple, which apparently is all I was able to handle tonight :)
