This month at dversepoets Bjorn has offered us a Sonnet challenge. Many poets struggle with writing Sonnet form, myself included. Part of the difficulty comes in working with the meter and rhyme scheme. I chose the Petrarchan Sonnet form...abab abab cde cde..with a pretext statement or problem and the resulting change or solution.
Au Revoir
Hopeful hearts rise and fall, undulate, sway,
revolving doors of full blown joy and pain.
Tangled in life's elegant human chain,
bloodied, tested by snags along the way.
Harder lessons living with shame and blame,
heady dreams impossible to sustain.
On bitter wings we lift to fly away,need for healing by soft, delicate rain.
Lost in the amethyst eye of the storm,
archangels wrap their wings around our fears,
we follow our one reappearing star.
Finding repose amidst our Milky Way home,
the love inside through billions of light years,
we take with us in sweetest au revoir.
