Innocence lies, or: Winter waits

A ‘Diablo’ poem

Children's laughter rings from the street
Spring's much absorbed by summer's heat
Innocence lies
I feel myself betrayed by youth
A father's love can't shade the truth
Although it tries

Eyes open, I know love deceives
Sure as the rainbows of the leaves
Sly sin of fate's
With passing years, I autumn more
Having accepted what's in store
My winter waits

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Diablo?

• A poem of two, six-line, iambic stanzas.
• Each stanza:
  • Lines 1,2,4 and 5, iambic tetrameter with rhymes at syllables 6 and 8.
  • Lines 3 and 6, iambic dimeter with rhymes at syllables 2 and 4.
• Rhyme scheme:
  • (a,b)(a,b)(c,d)(e,f)(e,f)(c,d)
  • (g,h)(g,h)(i,j)(k,l)(k,l)(i,j)

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W³ poetry prompt

This ‘Diablo’ poem was written for Steven S. Wallace’s W³ poetry prompt this week, which is to read Emily Dickinson’s ‘Superiority to Fate’ and then write a poem!

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Moonwashed weekly prompt

Autumn

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Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

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