Luna’s face in grace surrenders
Even with earth’s shadow creeping
Brighter still, she smiles rememb’ring
Her full phase dance with gravity
Inevitable darkness looms
Luna’s face in grace surrenders
Wiser from the lessons rendered
New moon waxing into fullness
Every living being knows from
birth to death it’s days are numbered
Luna’s face in grace surrenders
Never fading, into crescent
Soon will come the reaper’s sickle
Her escort to eternal rest
Just beyond the veil of darkness
Luna’s face in grace surrenders.
kat ~ 25 March 2016
A Quatern is a sixteen line French form composed of four quatrains. It is similar to the Kyrielle and the Retourne. It has a refrain that is in a different place in each quatrain. The first line of stanza one is the second line of stanza two, third line of stanza three, and fourth line of stanza four. A quatern has eight syllables per line. It does not a set rhyme scheme.
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
line 5
line 6 (line 1)
line 7
line 8
line 9
Line 10
line 11 (line 1)
line 12
line 13
line 14
line 15
line 16 (line 1)
like mercury colliding... 
March 26th, 2016 at 7:38 pm
Very nice! I like learning about all the different styles of poetry. I think all I ever learned in high school/college was haiku, quartet, sonnet, and iambic pentameter. (The only reason I remember that last one is because I thought the name sounded so cool – ha!)
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March 26th, 2016 at 8:09 pm
It does sound cool! I have been writing free form streams of consciousness for many years. I am just learning form and I love it! 😊
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March 26th, 2016 at 7:42 pm
Wonderful, I had no idea there were so many kinds of poems!
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March 26th, 2016 at 8:10 pm
70 or 80!at least, I love trying new form. 😊
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March 26th, 2016 at 10:05 pm
Wow I had no idea! That is allot of different types!
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March 26th, 2016 at 9:07 pm
Very nice! I also don’t think that I ever learned about this.
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March 26th, 2016 at 9:44 pm
Thank you. I enjoy the quatern form. I especially like the repeating line. 😊
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March 26th, 2016 at 9:48 pm
It’s funny, until you pointed it out, I wouldn’t have appreciated it.
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March 26th, 2016 at 9:32 pm
Beautifully written
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March 26th, 2016 at 9:45 pm
Thank you so much! I really do appreciate the encouragement” !
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March 26th, 2016 at 9:57 pm
I’ve loved your work♡♡♡
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March 27th, 2016 at 1:36 am
I love this one — I really should try a quatrain, you make it look so easy, but I’m sure it’s quite the challenge! Thank you for sharing 🙂
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March 27th, 2016 at 7:43 am
Thank you! The trick is getting a good opening line that will repeat well. Once you have that you build around it. I have started before with what I thought was a good repeating line and then changed it once I started writing and a new line emerged. It’s a nice process though. Good luck to you if you decide to go for it! 😊
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March 27th, 2016 at 10:21 am
AH, totally makes sense – seeing the evolution of the words 🙂
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March 27th, 2016 at 10:46 am
🙂
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March 27th, 2016 at 3:38 am
Oooh! Another new poetry firm I have learned! Thank you!
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March 27th, 2016 at 7:46 am
You should try it Ritu. I love the repeating line in this form. 😊
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March 27th, 2016 at 7:50 am
I may indeed have a try 😊😊😊
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