Yesterday's Applause
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Hutinashro
Created by Connor Lotts...each line has 8 syllables. Iambic tetrameter is optional. Divide the poem into 3 stanzas, 12 lines in the first 2 stanzas with an Aabccbddbeeb rhyme scheme. The first two stanzas share the first line. The last stanza, is 3 lines with an aba rhyme scheme.
Time speeds up as it slips away
years seem like months and weeks a day.
And though the stars still shine each night
in this world of hyperbole
and alternate reality,
I had to learn what's wrong from right
and lost my innocence of youth
when lies were touted as the truth.
For as a child, to calm my fright
I'm told, of God and Santa Claus,
but both stories are full of flaws
and broken wings can't achieve flight.
Time speeds up as it slips away,
there's never enough left for play.
And my sight dims to candlelight
until I stubbornly agree
that I now need glasses to see,
and finally, turn up the light.
I've learned it doesn't require a sleuth
to figure-out truth from untruth,
and yet, I view life through hindsight,
yearning for yesterday's applause.
I sometimes wish I could press pause,
delete mistakes and overwrite.
And though few will read what I say
I'll still think of poems to write,
in hopes that they'll get read; someday.
(Hutinashro)
05/29/2020
Copyright © Emile Pinet | Year Posted 2020
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