Out of Place

Another day in a world where I'm out of place
To always stay where the years turn I'm out of place

To see confusion form from clay in trembling hands
And find turmoil is on display I'm out of place

The beds I've slept that turned to gray as time has died
In vagrant rooms that went astray I'm out of place

Cast astray in worn out shoes from a foreign soul 
Where each path walked may lead to death I'm out of place

To see a world now bend away years beyond me
To my dismay of simpler times I'm out of place

Maybe the next roadway will lead me home in peace
From yesterdays of disarray I'm out of place

2/3/17 contest Form G

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Pashang Salehi

May 27, 2017 at 2:10 AM

Mr. Parker, your poem is great, I am just copying an explanation of Ghazal, your refrain is "I'm out of place". ( The rhyming in Ghazal ends like aA bA cA dA eA etc. If you choose to add refrain to your poem, the refrain comes after the rhyming in each couplet. In Ghazal, the first couplet must have the rhyming and the refrain in both halves of the couplet in subsequent couplets, only the second half of the couplet will follow the same scheme of rhyming).

Mark Martin

February 12, 2017 at 12:42 PM

Lonely and sad, excellent poetry. Congratulations Frederic! :-)

Constance La France

February 11, 2017 at 7:50 PM

Frederic congratulations on your win in my contest with this beautifully penned poem and I really love your voice ~

Frederic Parker

February 11, 2017 at 7:57 PM

Thank you dear poet for the placement and for having a contest where I had to do a form I've never done, and thank you for listening to the audio..

Darren White

February 11, 2017 at 4:23 AM

This is incredibly beautiful, honestly, what a ghazal! clay, may, stay, astray, dismay, yesterday, disarrays and whatnot! I am awed, congratulations :)