After lunch one weekend I reclined on the sofa with my three favourite feline friends nearby and wrote this quartet of Rondelet poems. The Rondelet is a French form consisting of a single septet with two rhymes and one refrain: AbAabbA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats. The refrain is written in tetra-syllabic or dimeter and the other lines are twice as long – octasyllabic or tetrameter.
Rogue Romance Rondelet
Tumultuous
The thrusts and unexpected turns
Tumultuous
Uplifting and ridiculous
How many times must one be burned?
Rejected, wanted, loved and spurned
Tumultuous
The Little Things
The little things
New catkins grow upon Spring trees
The little things
Relief that Friday Riesling brings
My cheeks stroked by the fresh sea breeze
A between-mealtime chunk of cheese
The little things
Soul Sculptor
He moulded me
I was but putty in his hands
He moulded me
and how our parting…
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