Rondeau: We Board this Train

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Rondeau: We Board this Train

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Rondeau: We Board this Train

©2017, Olan L. Smith


We board this train with minds anew

Our friends of bygone times askew

And dreams of then and now alike,

Perhaps we ride to meet unlike

In times before this life's debut.


The trip is short we say ado

We live to chance and thereunto

Resign our breath so statesmanlike,

We board this train.


Alas, and down the road we flew

And steel on steel of colors blue

A brakeman's job is canvas like

And spread in time 'tis resin like

Attaching stubs with stubs alike,

We board this train.


(A.N. This is a 15 line rondeau poem. Each line has eight iambic syllables and uses the rhyme scheme of a,a,b,b, R, a,a,b, R, a,a,b,b,b, R. The refrain is the first four syllables of line one. For more instructions on how to write a 15 line rondeau consult my article due out in The Poets Pub's, Writer's Handbook for September.)

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