Le Voyage Magnifique

The Trap

My uncle Jeb went overseas
to fight against Vietnamese,
where battle pitch was amplified
when outside influences tried
to turn the conflict on its side.
Beware the spider's tangled trap,
or you will be one sorry chap.

Our brave young soldiers could not hide
from Agent Orange herbicide,
which spread upon the summer breeze
and later caused severe disease
for those engaged with enemies.
Beware the spider's tangled trap,
or you will be one sorry chap.

Notes on the Sevenelle form of poetry ▼

The Sevenelle is a form of stanza, invented by Virginia Noble, with seven lines written in iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of aabbbCC, where upper case represents a refrain which is repeated at the end of each stanza, as described and demonstrated in the following link: https://www.poetrymagnumopus.com/topic/1199-metric-forms-from-pathways-for-the-p... .