My dog Sativa sitting on the picnic bench, watching over the neighborhood. We had to put her to sleep after 16 Loving and Loyal years. She's been gone 3 years now.

This poem is written in Lisalet Style. This is the new 'Lisalet Style/Format' Poem, developed by "L Sherman", a member of FanStory. I'm told I'm the third poet to try it.
This style has similarities with some other styles. The repetition in this poem is all based on the opening stanza. Each successive stanza starts with the corresponding line from the first. (Second stanza starts with 2nd line of first, so on...). Also, the final line of each stanza after the first one is the line directly preceding the repeated lines. Second stanza starts with 2nd line of first stanza and ends with the line immediately above the 2nd line in the first, and so on.
The line flow is like this: 1,2,3,4 - 2,5,6,1 - 3,7,8,2 - 4,9,10,3.
There is no line count or rhyme scheme specified.

For this poem I chose a count of 8. The rhyme scheme fell out as: abab aabb abab aabb a

Picture from my personal collection. This will become one of my picture Poems.

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