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** This is a form I invented called "QARINAGE" - I hope you enjoy it. **
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oh, how a fair breeze of Autumn can stir
my heart with reprieves - the redolent
leaves
remembrance of romance with you in a blur
soft eyes in a camber of absinthe and
amber
wheaty hair spilling like corn silk, to
shoulders
framing two spicy bow lips as they
smoldered
- falling like leaves ... for you
oh, how this time lifts me back to a dream
our ivy-clad schools, such unripened fools
a world as our oyster, and raw, it would
seem
escaped to the woods - discarding our
goods
we swam on a blanket of bright, leafy death
straining in passions to fever our breath
- falling like leaves ... for you
oh, how the chill always kindled our flame
pining each week for the rose of your cheek
weekends, adoring the ways that you came
our fleshy memoirs 'neath branches and
stars
each mutual climax, far sweeter than last
the moments exhausted, like us, far too fast
- falling like leaves ... for you
oh, Autumn still sings in my sinews today
the libertine flood yet coursing my blood
you waken my core in the most vexing way
when October flies I ache for your sighs
tho' bones are now brittle, the mem'ries
remain
chaotic obsessions and prurient pains
someday I'll lose them, like tears in the
rain
- falling like leaves for you ...
still falling ... in Deja vu.
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~ 3rd Place ~ in the "Strand Choice B, Any Form, Any Theme" Poetry Contest, Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor.
~ 2nd Place ~ in the "Your Choice Seasons-Festivals Verse, Any Form" Poetry Contest, Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor.
~ 1st Place ~ in the "Your Choice (6), Any Form, Any Theme" Poetry Contest, Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor.
~ 1st Place ~ in the "2019 Poetry Marathon Mile 4" Poetry Contest, Mark Toney, Judge & Sponsor.
~ 2nd Place ~ in the "Into The Woods" Poetry Contest, Silent One, Judge & Sponsor.
~ 2nd Place ~ in the "Best Rhyming Poem July Thru September" Poetry Contest, John Hamilton, Judge & Sponsor.
~ 1st Place ~ in the "Autumn Romance" Poetry Contest, Julie Rodeheaver, Judge & Sponsor.
( This is a form I created called "QARINAGE" - it has a very unusual-but-specific rhyme scheme and rhythm with a repeating refrain that is also the title. This is a re-working of an older piece )
Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden | Year Posted 2017
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