Pretty Ugly Words

Mushy Love Poem: Lento

These twelve years have come and gone
but my feelings remain young and new
We're older, grayer, and have more debt
and I still absolutely adore you.

I admire the way you work and sweat
to provide everything we need.
Without a complaint or a negative word
you are my true love, indeed!

Form Info ▼

Form: Lento


Number of Lines: 8


Rules:
A Lento consists of two quatrains with a fixed rhyme scheme of abcb, defe as the second and fourth lines of each stanza must rhyme.

To take it a step further, but not required, try rhyming the first and third lines as well as the second and fourth lines of each stanza in this rhyming pattern: abab, cdcd.


Meter:


Rhyme Scheme:
abab, defe

Choices for the poets to make this week: Your poem can be about any topic.


Example:

Denunciation

Despise me, I am your wretched slave,
Revise not your ways, how you treat me.
Chastise me with your insensate words,
Disguise goodness, so others will not see.

Inflict accusations so I might surrender,
Predict deadly disaster my fortune-teller,
Verdict of your frustration I await to hear,
Evict me from your fruitless life forever.

Copyright © 2006 Lencio Dominic Rodrigues

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