Life Song
Sweet song of summer is over,
Did you end your verse?
Did you leave participles dangling
for better or for worse?
The mete of man is production
in one form or another.
If you spend all your time wrangling
in contentious bother,
when the final whistle warns you
to gather for your pay,
you may find your tally wanting,
in need of longer stay.
But the die, in stone has been cast.
has nought for you to nod.
Your future looms ever daunting,
answering to your God
~//~
Modified Quatrain, 8 line verse
Rhyming lines are 2 and 4, 6 and 8, 3 and 7
Alternate long and short lines
For Constance the Rambling Poet
11 th in “Create your own form contest”
©. Nov 07, 2010 Charles Henderson
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