Complete the Puzzle - Life Or Death
Life's pieces fit together, one by one.
Inserting them is challenging and fun,
For each shape adds to making of the whole;
Eventual completion is the goal.
Just like a puzzle, each piece falls in place.
Before our death, we must complete the race.
So many times, confront an empty space;
the hunt for proper shape we must embrace.
Our puzzle should be filled before life's pace
is done, for empty spots would then erase
the chance to bring completed goal to grace
that day we meet our Maker face to face.
Death dances dauntingly detecting done
ahead at bend that leads to our life's end,
when at that hour we meet the Lord with our
life's pieces fit together, one by one.
Sandra M. Haight
~3rd Place~
Contest: 4 x 4 Word Pairing Master Rhyme
Sponsor: Silent One
Theme Chosen: Life Or Death
Judged: 02/11/2016
FIRST STANZA
Acrostic with rhyme scheme: aabb.
The first line in this stanza will be the last line in the 4th stanza.
SECOND STANZA AND THIRD STANZA
Mono rhymes - all the rhymes have to be the same. aaaa aaaa
FORTH STANZA
First line is alliteration and must rhyme with the fourth line: aa
Second and third line internal rhyme. bb bb (two rhymes per line)
Fourth line is the same as first line in the first stanza
There are no meter requirements in this contest.
However, I have used Iambic Pentameter
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