Since You've Gone

Contest "Pond Poetry" Wrapped Refrain Photo Prompt Nighttime in a snow covered park.

Since You've Gone

You could not stay, you left me cold,
alone in the dark season's hold.
A solitary bench sits stark
against a white snow covered park.
I'm frozen inside, holding my writing at bay,
barren Winter's reminder that you would not stay,

The lonely night yields not a sound,
the moon reflects off snow in rebound
and tree limbs hang low weighted down.
I walk in the square near downtown
to defrost my heart, hoping to once again write
and pour out my pain in verse on this lonely night.
                              ~~Judi Van Gorder

Notes: ▶︎

12 Lines
Wrapped Refrain The elements of the Wrapped Refrain are:
         1. stanzaic, written in any number of sixains or octaves.
         2. syllabic, 8-8-8-8-12-12 syllables per lines when written in sixains, 14-14-8-8-8-8-14-14 syllables per line when written in octaves.
         3. rhymed, aabbcc ddeeff etc. when written in sixains and aabbccdd eeffgghh etc when written in octaves.
         4. written with each sixain repeating the first 4 syllables of L1 as the last 4 syllables of L6 or each octave repeating the first 10 syllables of L1 as the last 10 syllables of L8.