A Kyrielle Poem for Jane Dougherty’s Weekly Poetry Challenge using the words: Moonlight, tread, wary, secret, swaying and the photo below as inspiration.
Evening moonlight floods the pathway
swaying trees lean in shadow play
along the treaded road to home
each soul must journey here alone.
Once upon each new life dawning
wary travelers seek belonging
often forgetting what they know
each soul must journey here alone.
Days turn into weeks, months, years
decades spent in joy and in tears
some find life spent, nothing to show
each soul must journey here alone.
Still others with true joie de vivre
have no regrets come time to leave
they know the secret in their bones
each soul must journey here alone.
Soon, too soon life’s final chapter
turns the page to the hereafter
promising peace for all who roam
each soul must journey here alone.
kat ~ 26 May 2016
like mercury colliding... 
May 26th, 2016 at 11:46 am
I love your refrain line! So pleased you decided on a kyrielle.
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May 26th, 2016 at 11:50 am
I had done a Kyrielle Sonnet before, which is a 14 line poem consisting of three quatrains (same rhyme and refrain line pattern) ending in a two line couplet that repeats the first line and refrain line. I like that this one has no stanza limitations. 🙂
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May 26th, 2016 at 12:18 pm
I’ll have to try the sonnet 🙂
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May 26th, 2016 at 12:10 pm
What a beautiful poem! I am new to kyrielle poetry. I really liked what you did with the form.
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May 26th, 2016 at 12:26 pm
It is very much like a psalm with the repeating refrain. I like this form very much. There is also a variation called a kyrielle sonnet. Shadow Poetry also has instructions on that form. http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/kyriellesonnet.html
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May 26th, 2016 at 1:36 pm
This is wonderful KAt! xx
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May 26th, 2016 at 2:03 pm
Thanks Lynn! How are those babies! 🙂 ❤
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May 26th, 2016 at 6:42 pm
Very good! how is your daughter?
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May 26th, 2016 at 6:43 pm
She is vacationing with her husband and stepson in Florida! All is well. Just s few more months! 🙂
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May 26th, 2016 at 6:56 pm
oh good!
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May 26th, 2016 at 1:43 pm
Love the refrain kat! Great job…
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May 26th, 2016 at 2:03 pm
Thanks Sudha! It took a bit of tweaking but I am happy with the final version. 🙂
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May 26th, 2016 at 2:02 pm
Excellent!
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May 26th, 2016 at 2:03 pm
Thank you Ken. 🙂
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May 26th, 2016 at 8:01 pm
I like Kyrielles for the reason I see in your poem, that last line repeated in each stanza is so effective. In your poem, very haunting.
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May 26th, 2016 at 8:45 pm
Thank you Mandi. I have also tried a kyrielle sonnet. A similar form. The repeating line can be very effective. Reminds me of the psalms.
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May 26th, 2016 at 9:05 pm
Yes, it is very much like that. You’re right. I had a social studies teacher who constantly repeated info we needed to know. It was annoying at first but by test time we were amazed how much we could remember. So I think repetition in a teaching sense like in the Psalms, is very useful 🙂
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May 26th, 2016 at 10:07 pm
I love this so much Kat, and the picture is perfect. The poem is kind of melancholy yet so deep and true. xoxo
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May 26th, 2016 at 10:38 pm
Thanks Kathryn! I love these challenges. They do make me dig deep! 🙂
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May 27th, 2016 at 5:00 am
Such truth in that refrain – loved this poem 🙂 H x
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May 27th, 2016 at 6:08 am
Thank you! 😊
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May 27th, 2016 at 6:53 am
Lovely refrain, speaks on so many levels.
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May 27th, 2016 at 9:54 am
Thank you Sarah. This is my birthday week…found myself in a reflective mood embracing my joie de vivre! 😊
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May 27th, 2016 at 4:43 pm
Happy birthday! Hope it’s a good one x
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May 27th, 2016 at 4:46 pm
Thank you! I’m planning on it! 🎂🎉🎉🎉
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May 31st, 2016 at 4:27 am
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May 31st, 2016 at 6:23 am
This is haunting–wonderful refrain!
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May 31st, 2016 at 6:27 am
Thank you Merril! 😊
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