The Deepest Pearl
A pearl is held within this shell,
where loneliness a love does quell.
The light of hope for one once felled,
the sound of celebration’s knell.
A hope that our two hearts will meld.
Within this shell a pearl is held.
As you will see, a man made whole
will bare to you his deepest soul.
His one desire, your love the key.
His shell is shed as all extol
before you now, on bended knee,
a man made whole, as you will see.
This poem is my response to Poetry Form: Sparrowlet, the prompt from Grace at dVerse Poets Pub, which is to write a Sparrowlet, an invented stanzaic form created by Kathrine Sparrow.
The elements of the Sparrowlet are:
• stanzaic, written in any number of sixains. (A stanza of 6 lines).
• syllabic, lines of 8 syllables each. (Often written in iambic tetrameter.)
• rhymed, rhyme scheme BbabaA.
• L1 and L6 of each stanza is written in 2 hemistichs.
(Hemistich means a half a line of a verse).
• The 2 halves of L1 are inverted and repeated as a refrain in L6.
The last line MUST be the EXACT SAME as line 1, just switched around,
with a change in punctuation to accommodate the meaning
as the only variable allowed).
The pattern of the 6 line stanza (with bold characters as the repeated syllables):
RRRA, RRRB
xxxxxxxb
xxxxxxxa
xxxxxxxb
xxxxxxxa
RRRB, RRRA
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You nailed it!!! Still fighting with mine🙂
Pat
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Thank you, Pat. I wasn’t too sure about it, but once I laid out my first and sixth lines it was a little easier.
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I like the first line of first stanza and also how it reads in reverse in the last line. There is a confidence in what is being said in the poem that encourages belief.
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A beautiful poem
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Thank you.
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You’re welcome
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You did this flawlessly. Reads with a smoothness that’s enviable. I bless you for gifting me this today. xoxo
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Thank you for your kind words, Selma.
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This is a wonderful poem, Ken.
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🙂 Thank you, Robbie.
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The answer is love, yes…where loneliness a love does quell…..really interesting line, thought-provoking…nicely written Ken..
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Thank you, Ain.
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Beautiful imagery of the pearl and shell, Ken–and such a well-crafted poem!
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Thank you, Merril.
It’s an interesting form.
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Yes, it is, and you’re welcome.
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Beautiful, Ken: true love is surely the pearl we all carry within us!
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🙂 That it is!
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Beautiful
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Thanks!
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Wonderful Sparrowlet Ken, love the rhythm too.
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Thank you, Paul.
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The perfect form for one of your love poems. (K)
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Thanks, Kerfe. The form definitely deserves revisiting.
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I agree.
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This is a sweet love poem. Wonderful work on the form too!
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Thank you. 😀
And thank you for the prompt.
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Awesome! A wonderfully-crafted piece.
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Thank you. 🙂
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You’re welcome, Ken.
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Wow, this is great!
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Thanks!
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This is so well done, and I love the metaphor of the pearl
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😀 Thank you, Björn.
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Where do you keep all that sweetness, Ken?! 😀 ❤
-David
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I cannot deny my muse. 🙂
Thank you, David.
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