Poetic Flight

Like a magic incantation,
within the pages of my mind,
dwells poetic inspiration,
with strong emotions all entwined.

Within the pages of my mind,
I crack the cover of my thought
and out flies poems of every kind
composing things I have been taught.

I crack the cover of my thought
to use the essence that makes me,
the better person I have sought
with penned ideas that keep me free.

To use the essence that makes me
a poetess that loves to write
and show the world for all to see
my poems are full of pow’r and might.

A poetess that loves to write
the thoughts escaping from my soul
and all the feelings within sight,
my poetry will make me whole.


Author notes

Retourne:
Like so many other French forms, the Retourne is all about repetition. It contains 
four quatrains (four-line stanzas), and each line has eight syllables. The trick is 
that the first stanza's second line must also be the second stanza's first line, the 
first stanza's third line is the third stanza's first, and the first stanza's fourth line is 
the fourth stanza's first. Retournes do not have to rhyme.

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