In answer to Martha’s “Silence” prompt, I am including links to two poems I’ve dedicated to silence. See the link to her post at the end. Don’t miss it!
Our Mother, Cloaked in Silence (Daily Post and dVerse Poets Rhyme Royal)
Be sure to click on Marsha’s incredible post (As silent as a falling leaf”, thoughtful as a man with a dream,” by clicking on her link here: WQWWC 49
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Our Mother, Cloaked in Silence
Although she was our portal to the world,
with little pageantry we laid her down.
No trumpets blared, the flags full mast unfurled,
for it was small, the realm of her renown.
And yet the limbs were bare, the whole world brown
as though the trees she planted all were lief
to shed their full green finery in their grief.
The prompt today was cloaked. Also for the dVerse poets prompt, Rhyme Royal.The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, (usually) in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b, b-c-c. It was the standard narrative meter in the late Middle Ages.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 