At the end of the day that's forever,
When the weight of the world feels so heavy,
On the edge of the night you may wander,
In the hope to release day's endeavors
You may meet with a friend at the levee
And discuss what philosophers ponder.
For the path may be dark that you travel,
But a pal and her dog, prancing along,
Make it easy to see when shared with three,
That the knots of the day may unravel
That's because they just shouldn't belong,
And with them you become more carefree.
There is nothing better than evening time walks
With a frisky dog and with friendly talks.
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Author Notes
I took this picture along a pathway just before nightfall, but just moments prior to when the walkway lights came on. These are two strangers that I captured at that monment. I liked the effect, and pondered what they might be discussing. I also liked the joy the dog's body language portrayed. That's my inspiration here.
I wrote this in a bit of a different cadence to imitate the rhyme scheme of abcabc. Instead of iambic, I used the more waltz-like meter of anapestic. So, instead of a marching da Dum da Dum of the iamb, I have a more skip-like da da Dum, da da Dum here.
This poem is a Sestet Sonnet.
A Sestet Sonnet still has the 14 lines, like the traditional Sonnet, but instead of the first 12 being done in 3 Quatrains (4 line stanzas), this format uses 2 Sestets (6 line stanzas). Both forms close with a rhyming couplet. The rhyme scheme of a sestet Sonnet is:
abcabc cdecde ff.
With the rhymes spaced a little further apart, they are a bit more subtle. Some think this adds to the elequence of the format.
It is written in an anapestic meter. Anapest consists of three syllables where the first two are unstressed and the last one is stressed. I blended it into a 10 syllable line.
This picture was taken by the author himself on January 19, 2013.
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