Rejection is a bitter pill to eat,
when problems are most likely to repeat.
The details are quite hard to comprehend.
Since things seemed to be going very well,
How could I be blind-sided in the end?
Within her clutches heedlessly I fell.
She played a clever game of love-pretend.
Then when I felt no need my heart defend,
she switched her pitch and turned life into hell.
Oh, how I wish I'd seen those claws extend!
Regret pervades me more than I can tell.
Next I'll be much more watchful, I intend.
Where problems are most likely to repeat,
Rejection is a bitter pill to eat.
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Author Notes
I guess things could be going better.
This poem is a Tirrell Sonnet.
A Tirrell Sonnet was created by Robert Tirrell Leonard, a poet from Woburn, MA. who is also a politician and author of several poetry collections.
The Tirrell Sonnet (an American model), is quite different and has a unique feel to it. It falls into the category of Sonnets that are Stanzaic Transitions in that they deviate from the standard Sonnet stanza formats. It starts with a couplet followed by a tercet, followed by a quatrain, adding the turn with a following tercet and then reversing the order of the repeated couplet as a sort of refrain.
So it is: Couplet + Tercet + Quatrain + Tercet + reversed Couplet.
It features only 3 rhymes (a,b,and c). It is written in iambic pentameter.
This can create an introspective feel to the whole poem.
The rhyme scheme is:
A1, A2 - b,c,b - c,b,b,c - b,c,b - A2, A1,
where the capital letters indicate the repeated verses and the numbers provide identification.
The image was taken by the author himself from his medicine cabinet on MAY 13, 2017.
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