Romance Poetry posted February 21, 2020


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The Park Bench

by JLR

Hush can you hear the meadowlarks call?
The wind caresses Spring's grass growing tall
As leaves budding forth promises a warm year
The meadowlarks call, hush, can you hear?

People are strolling eager, to meet and greet,
as parents are helping little people cross the street.
On the grass, you see the dogs romping and rolling.
Eager to meet and greet, people are strolling

On the park bench, I sit with my soulmate.
Chatting away about our lives being so great!
Then a rain shower in which we get drenched.
I sit with my soulmate on the park bench.

Hush can you listen, as I whisper in your ear?
My lips are softly reading works of Shakespeare.
Words falling into your heart from his pen,
as I whisper in your ear, hush, can you listen?

The meadowlark soars up high in the sky,
then swoops down and looks us in the eye!
Such calm, a safe space, sensing a rapport

Up in the sky, the meadowlark soars!




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2020


Swap Quatrain; The Swap Quatrain was created by Lorraine M. Kanter.

Within the Swap Quatrain each stanza in the poem must be a quatrain (four lines) where the first line is reversed in the fourth line. In addition, line 2 must rhyme with line 1, and line 3 must rhyme with line 4 and so on, BUT not repeat the same rhyming pattern on subsequent stanzas. Not mentioned in the notes I found is these are usually written with specific syllable count per stanza, I therefore am taking poetic liberty to just let my syllable count flow as it came from my heart.

Rhyming pattern: AABB, CCDD, and so on.

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