Poems that pursue the horizon from past to present and poems created for NaPoWriMo 2017 |
By the bronze banks of Babylon rest silver twisted steel beams sheared. Corrupt jagged tarnished rafters, where aged red brick buildings reared, Rusty remnant remains. Barren, bleak, corroded and charred, chromatic trees mildewed and bare, Starkly surround abandoned shops once standing proud where cobwebs snare Rusty remnant remains. Inoxidizable rotting waste from industrial life visions, Discolors Babylon’s water, sludge of telium’s divisions: Rusty remnant remains. My horse steps deep in oozing mud, trudges slow this corroded plot. No greens to nibble, brown sticks of ferrugo; isothermally hot Rusty remnant remains. Each human who has ceased to be, whose whispers echo through ruins rust; Whose life forms birthed vaporized air. their lives shorn, dreams vanished to dust, Rusty remnant remains. Chestnut steed outruns destruction, escaping bombed land’s rancid waste. Ferrying earth’s lone survivor, fast from rubiginous soil raced- Rusty remnant remains. Pasture lush freshly grows, quick my horse firmly trots, lightly steps above ; Emerald ribbons rich he spies free from fungi’s ravaged stain of Rusty remnant remains. His frantic pace my horse swift slows to forage food, sweet green grass mined; Babylon's umber ashen blot haunts me, a shadow in my mind: Rusty remnant remains. ____________________________________________ Entry: April 1, 2017 Prompt: Rust or the color rust For: Dew Drop Inn Poetry Workshop Form: Rondel Grand is a form created by Victoria Sutton, aka, Passionspromise. It is stanzaic, and syllabic, with a minimum of 3 quintains, and no maximum. The first four lines are 8 syllables, the fifth line is 6 syllables. This poem follows a Modified Rondel Grand (see note on rhyme pattern). Rhyme Pattern: ababR cdcdR..etc. Note: This poem was modified to an abcbR, etc. rhyme pattern. Commentary ▼ Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.~~Robert Frost |