(5) Words: | WATCH | EDGE | PROOF | PAUSE | SOOTH |
Watch the forest come alive with mighty trees
Pause and listen to the sound of rustling leaves
Leaves dance to unheard beat, soothing to the ears
And at the edge of the forest the sky grieves
Fragments of blue remain, like scattered puzzles
The air is its freshest after it drizzles
As a proof a frosty chill hung in the air
Some badgers carried the food back in their lair*
(c) ladyleemanila 2016
*A Rispetto, an Italian form of poetry, is a complete poem of two rhyme quatrains with strict meter. The meter is usually iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abab ccdd. A Heroic Rispetto is written in Iambic pentameter, usually featuring the same rhyme scheme.
ladyleemanila 