In My Rearview

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Looking back in time, I can see,
not very long ago, it seems,
when we were tangled up in dreams.

Driving Interstate Seventy,
I remember, when you were mine,
you loved red roses and white wine.

This road is my best remedy
for your capricious rigmarole
and the empty hole in my soul.

Ain't it weird how things get to be
so much clearer in the rearview,
now that I'm no longer near you?

Free from emotional debris?
I think not, but it's all I've got,
because the judge gave you my yacht.



Author's note: The Constanza, created by Connie Marcum Wong, consists of five or more 3-line stanzas. Each line has a set meter of eight syllables. The first lines of all the stanzas can be read successively as an independent poem, with the rest of the poem weaved in to express a deeper meaning. The first lines convey a theme written in monorhyme, while the second and third lines of each stanza rhyme together.

Rhyme scheme: a/b/b, a/c/c, a/d/d, a/e/e, a/f/f.........etc.

For more information and examples, please see:
http://shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/constanza.html