Life Is a Term Lease

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This wreath is in your eidetic memory, yet you should live.
            Can you receive my lament, which is almost to happen?
There is no garland as I plummet, rattled by the sieve.
Died with you, can't revive, as you lie on plush and satin.
                        Earth collapses beneath its weight—why was it to be that way?
The words reflect that living beings are welcome today.
To read the stones, the lost will return home shortly to stay.
      The shade of gloom fosters a dark and virtuous decease. 
            Stashed spaceship shrines to scold scintillating stars in peace.
                        Among the outworn headstones, the moss knows the lease. 
There's a hushed quiescence here; no birds to chirp up or hive.
            The wind moans, the agony is veiled, and the heart blackens.
      Trusting that I would rest here, bereft of any rich ray.
            Leaving behind all my acrid-gained assets through a name cease.

Written: February 25, 2023

This poem form is the Fragmented Rhyme invented and Conceived by Constance La France. It has 14 lines with indentation, and a rhyme scheme, as follows: ABABCCCDDDABCD

Copyright © | Year Posted 2023



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Date: 2/26/2023 5:55:00 AM
There's a hushed quiescence here; no birds to chirp up or hive. The wind moans, the agony is veiled, and the heart blackens---I hear the poignant voice of your poem my friend. And your title says it all.
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Date: 2/26/2023 1:49:00 AM
Another brilliant poem.
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Date: 2/25/2023 11:09:00 PM
Simply a beautiful poem.
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Date: 2/25/2023 8:35:00 PM
Wow, love it, amazing work how you put these together in so many styles to tell so much wisdom and knowledge to all, amazes me
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