DON’T WITHHOLD LOVE: award winner;

DON’T WITHHOLD LOVE: an Ae Freislighe


I just cannot comprehend,
Why I should have to remind.
I wish you could understand,
To withhold love is unkind.

Am I not, too, lovable?
Why is our love a problem?
Why is our love unstable?
We, too, can be love’s emblem.

Let us not be desperate,
This knot we two can untie.
With love let us saturate
Our hearts, we two, you and I.


• Features of Ae Freislighe, an Irish verse Form:

a. Written in quatrains, each line has 7 syllables
b. L1 and L3 written with three-syllable end-words and L2 and L4 with two-syllable end-words
c.Rhyme-- abab cdcd etc.
d. Use alliteration and assonance
e.The poem ends with the same word, phrase or line with which it began.

• Awarded merit badge in the “Weekender's Write On Challenge” contest, "Invalid Item" , Round 2, hosted by c.t.moon.

* Showcased in Poetry newsletter dated 20 May, 2013.


M C Gupta
14 March 2009