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fall in love every day, met my fate sidewalk poem

Every day I fall in love Met my fate sidewalk

every morning I fall in love
ever since that date
when I met my fate

I had a dream for eight years
it was in September
a date I shall always remember

I had a dream for eight years
that she would come into my life
someday becoming my wife

I had a dream for eight years
when I met her, everything was all right
she made my life great
every morning I fall in love


There is another "Sidewalk Poem" verse form Sidewalk Poem and I'm pretty sure we've written some here already. I can remember writing a couple and now I can't find them. The original Sidewalk Poems are meant to appear on the sidewalk written in chalk and are much shorter than this form. The "chalk" Sidewalk Poem is found all over the internet. And I think I first read about it here.

I would describe Gervic's Sidewalk Poem a little differently than Gervic did. I had to break it down based on the example poem. Maybe this will help someone else write one.

Sidewalk Poem a la Gervic. This is a two-part poem. The elements of the Sidewalk Poem a la Gervic are:
1. a two-part poem, each displaying a contrast or parallel of events, ideas, objects, feelings, emotions, etc.
2. each of the two parts is made up of four closed tercets, each tercet is composed of a short main line followed by an indented couplet.
3. each of the two parts end with a single-line refrain. L1 of each part is repeated as L7 in refrain.
4. each tercet should interact with the other tercets but should also be able to be a stand alone poem.
5. meter or syllabic patterns at the discretion of the poet.
6. rhyme scheme, X1 aaxbb xcc xdd X1 or X2ab xab xcd xcd X2. x being unrhymed X being a refrain
7. the title of the poem is a combination of the two refrains.