BIRDS AND SEASONS

BIRDS AND SEASONS

The sun is lasting longer now,
As winter is over once more.
Snow releases its weight from the boughs.

Birds will nest in those trees for sure
Back to where they left in the fall,
As winter is over once more.

Flying as nature calls them all,
To return to where they were born,
Back to where they left in the fall.

Winter from there, they were torn,
The large ones and also the small
To return to where they were born.

The pink herrings are very tall.
While the song birds do sing so swell,
The large ones and also the small.

They all bring life to where they dwell,
While the song birds do sing so swell.
The sun is lasting longer now.
Snow releases it’s weight from the boughs.

This is a Terzanelle 8 Syllable count. The Terzanelle is a poetry type which is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima forms. It is a 19-line poem consisting of five interlocking triplets/tercets plus a concluding quatrain in which the first and third lines of the first triplet appear as refrains. The middle line of each triplet is repeated, reappearing as the last line of the succeeding triplet with the exception of the center line of the next-to-the-last stanza which appears in the quatrain. The rhyme and refrain scheme for the triplets is as shown. Each line of the poem should be the same metrical length.

Monty