Joseph Spence Sr Poet Kyrielle

Happy Birthday Meg (Kyrielle Sonnet)

Happy belated birthday Meg
This is your time to shake a leg
Hope you celebrated your way
Go ahead and have a great day

May your territory increase
And in you God’s blessings release
Holy Spirit hands on you lay
Go ahead and have a great day

From you evil spirits depart
They will not cause grief to your heart
This is your time for fun and play
Go ahead and have a great day!

Happy belated birthday Meg
Go ahead and have a great day

© Joseph, 4/19/08
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Comments:  For my poet friend Margaret Okubo on her birthday.  The Kyrielle 
Sonnet has 14 lines (three rhyming quatrain stanzas and a non-rhyming 
couplet). It has a repeating line or phrase as a refrain in the last line of each 
stanza.  Each line within the sonnet has eight syllables. The French use the first 
and last line of the first quatrain as the ending couplet. This reinforces the refrain 
within the poem. The rhyming scheme for a Kyrielle Sonnet normally is: AabB, 
ccbB, ddbB, AB -or- AbaB, cbcB, dbdB, AB.

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James Foulk October 3, 2008 at 2:07 PM nice write very different, and a nice tribute to your friend. thank you for reading my poem and for your comment

Matthew Anish June 11, 2008 at 3:09 PM You seem to have mastered a difficult form. Keep it up! Matthew Anish