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~receding Space Between Thought and Action~

Reclining within spring's bouquet
she thought,” Please stay, don't rush away,
I so enjoy, these blooms of May."

This maiden who boldly proclaimed
wished only for sweet azure sky
upon which white clouds could be framed
without knowing the reasons why.

Yet, deep within, a darkness grew
like London fog, it changed her view
and left her plea cast all askew.

With every cloud, she graced with smiles
a dozen more would turn to grey
and through these hues she witnessed trials
as heaven wept for man's dismay.

No matter what the sky would bring
to make this world alive and sing,
she felt the pain from mankind’s sting.

She knew this venom slowly killed,
just like the years traveled from birth,
each space, a wound shadows had filled
in every corner of her earth.

But then a spark! A thought divine!
a revelation that might shine,
to help her break apathy’s spine.

She shouted truth, for so long slurred;
that man was more than part-time king
and he could change what was inferred,
so she would see, a better spring.

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A Double Sarabande Sonnet

Specs:

The Sarabande was a dance of Persian origin introduced into Spain in the 16th century.
The poem follows the movements of the dance with its change of stanza form
to comply with the measures of the music. As a “sonnet” it has:

14 lines
Four stanzas

Stanza 1 a tercet, rhyme axa or aaa

Stanza 2 a quatrain, any quatrain form or rhyme
The stanza forms may be mixed
English: abab or abcb
Italian: baab
Spanish: bcbc
French: bbcc

Stanza 3 a tercet, same tercet form as stanza 1
a sonnet with a French tercet requires
line 2 of both tercets to rhyme.

Stanza 4 a quatrain, any quatrain form and
rhyme
Any metrical foot
Any metrical line
Some authorities insist on eight syllables
but this is not cut and dried
Rhyme scheme: depends on the form chosen.

The volta the first line of the second tercet.

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