Where does she wander? Day 27 (Form: Saraband) |
Sleeping Dog A whine, a snort, the faintest bark floats in the air. Without a care, she moves along memory's arc. Her legs move in a graceful dance, forgetting her graying muzzle, as she is taken by sleep's trance. What she chases is a puzzle. Has she returned to puppyhood? That time is past; it moves too fast yet in dreams, that's not understood. Does she visit halcyon days when we wore a younger man's clothes, unaffected by time's malaise or what chronic age would impose? She travels in realms of the dark, caught in its net; unknown β and yet familiar as her favorite park. With a sigh, she sinks into sleep; her adventure done for the night. Carbonate dreams, lost in the deep recesses, no longer excite. Prompt for: June 27, 2014 Subject or Theme: Write what you hear (close your eyes and describe whatever you hear around you) Word(s) to Include: Carbonated, Chronic Forbidden Word(s): Cry, ear, hear, loud, music, noise, soft, sound, speech, talk Additional Parameters: Minimum 20 lines. Form: Saraband ~ The Saraband is a septet form is taken from the musical dance form which has an alternate meter of: 3 β 4. The form follows the dance with two stanzas. The first one of 3 lines, and the second of 4 lines. The rhyme scheme is: a. x. a.....b. c. b. c. etc. For Lily - my Scottish Deerhound halcyon ~ happy; joyful; carefree malaise ~ a vague or unfocused feeling of mental uneasiness, lethargy, or discomfort chronic ~ continuing a long time carbonate ~ to make sprightly; enliven |