Selfless Love (Trenta-sei)
It fills my heart with shooting stars
The love you show and do not speak
Lettering the history of ours
I see the truth in your eyes peak
Where joy and pain are penned with hope
Your silence is the envelope
The love you show and do not speak
An ocean deeper than the sea
Its tidal waves benign and meek
Wash out my storm, reach out to me
I heed the call and hold your hand
Your silent pleas I understand
Lettering the history of ours
Engraved in colored hieroglyphs
I drink your words and devour
The memories delightful gifts
With each poem a misted rose
Blossoming hope inside me grows
I see the truth in your eyes peak
Your solemn oath to be my friend
Was but a camouflage to seek
A place in my life till the end
Would you ever doubt you exist
In my world more than you persist?
Where joy and pain are penned with hope
I lay my head against your chest
Afraid to give you enough rope
To doom your future to unrest
My selfish heart tells me to stay
Wishing to find another way
Your silence is the envelope
That wrapped my wounds and wiped my tears
When yesterday gave me no scope
Your patience reined my darkest fears
No one but you captured my heart
Therefore I say farewells and part
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Author's Note:
The Trenta-sei form was created by the poet John Ciardi. It's a 36-line poem (the word "trenta-sei" is Italian for (36) that has a rhyme pattern and refrains.
The guidelines:
Six sestets (or 6-line stanzas).
Each sestet has the following rhyme pattern: (ababcc.)
Each line in the first stanza makes the first line in its corresponding stanza. So line 1 is the first line of the first stanza; line 2 is the first line of the second stanza; etc. (So a little like the cascade poem.)
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