Remembering With Smiles
a charonnet
II smiled when I thought of my aunt.
Smooth as velvet, Aunt Anne spoke silk.
She was my secret confidant;
her kind heart was cream atop milk.
We both were born in the same year
why mom died at my birth – unclear.
Two girls grew up at Anne’s mother’s
with five guys, uncles and brothers.
When I thought of my aunt, I smiled
Aunt Anne spoke silk, smooth as velvet.
My confidant she was - hush-hush.
Cream atop milk, her heart was kind.
With five boys we hit, spit and bit;
Lone sisters ruled; two souls were knit.
September 9, 2020
Charles Messina's contest: Charonnet Poetry Contest
Starting line: "I smiled when..."
rhyme scheme (ABAB, CCDD, EFGH, II)
8 syllables in each line, no more or less.
This is a form Charles Messina created.
In the last "stanza" NOT the couplet. You must re-arrange the words in lines AB & AB in the first stanza. *See my example in my latest poem "Ninety-Nine Years" In addition, you can only use (8) syllables in each line, no more or less.
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