Winter Wrinkles
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Swap Quatrain
Created by Lorraine M. Kanter. Within the Swap Quatrain each stanza in the poem must be a quatrain (four lines) where the first line is reversed in the fourth line. In addition, line 2 must rhyme with line 1, and line 3 must rhyme with line 4 and so on, BUT not repeat the same rhyming pattern on subsequent stanzas. Rhyming pattern: AABB, CCDD, and so on.
Winter wrinkles, revealing signs of age,
but beneath banks of snow, it's tough to gauge.
Although spring showers are mainly sprinkles
revealing signs of age, Winter wrinkles.
Robin red-breasts arrive, summoned by Spring,
to celebrate the warmth, She's sure to bring.
And spreading the word that nature's alive,
summoned by Spring, robin red-breasts arrive.
As the river ice buckles, forming packs,
trillium sprout amidst forest cutbacks
And when Winter looks patchy and worn out,
amidst forest cutbacks, trillium sprout.
No longer white, Winter wears shades of gray,
Her crystalline beauty, fading away.
And exhausted by the sun's extended light,
Winter wears shades of gray, no longer white.
There's a fragrant Spring waiting in the wings
with snowdrop flowers pulling on heartstrings.
As melting icicles give up their bling,
waiting in the wings, there's a fragrant Spring.
(Swap Quatrain)
Mar. 21, 2019
Copyright © Emile Pinet | Year Posted 2019
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