Promptly Poetry Challenge 2021-22

Wasteland [Week 45 entry]

Wasteland


No gentle tongue to wet my lips,
with sorrow I've not come to grips.
They bore her off, the one I'll miss -
I thank thee, Lord, for love's last kiss.

No joy to share and ease life 's pain,
my soul's become a dusty plain.
No loving touch, no simple bliss -
I thank thee, Lord, for love's last kiss.

Three years, it seems, have passed and yet
my heart our love will not forget.
No passion flares; 'twould be amiss -
I thank thee, Lord, for love's last kiss.




Prompt / Form Note ▼

Prompt: Lost alone in the desert. The desert can be metaphorical or literal, your choice.
Form Note: A Kyrielle is a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains, with each quatrain containing a repeating line or phrase as a refrain and lines consisting of eight syllables. The rhyme scheme used here is aabB, ccbB, ddbB, with B being the repeated line.