Petals in the Wind

by damommy

The petals fall upon the ground to lay
atop the grass and leaves beneath the tree
until the wind and rain wash them away.

Some float across the green so light and free
as though they have a special place to go,
and whisper ‘mong themselves where it might be.

A few won’t tell the others what they know,
how they will lay and wait to shed their seeds
and thus give birth to new ones that will grow

and push their blossoms high above the weeds
to catch the dewdrop’s kiss in early morn.
The sun and soil will furnish all their needs.

Then trumpet vines will blow their scarlet horn
in celebration of the newly born.

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A terza rima consists of stanzas of three lines (or tercets) usually in iambic pentameter. It follows an interlocking rhyming scheme, or chain rhyme. This is where the middle of each stanza rhymes with the first and last line of the following stanza. There is no set length to this form, as long as it follows the pattern as follows:
ABA
BCB
CDC
DED
With the last stanza as a couplet rhyming with the middle line of the previous stanza. In this case, EE.

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Petals in the Wind

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