(Tritina)
You know by now just how much I do love
You because you mean more than you
will know and I'll always love you forever
Looking in your eyes I see love forever
And the stars in the sky sparkle with your love
‘Cause sometimes there's only me and you
You're the one that makes me strong and in you
I trust with all my heart and soul forever
There's nobody in the world like you my love
I know that I'll love you now and forever.
Dorian Petersen Potter
aka ladydp2000
copyright@2014
November,20,2014
(written alternating pentameters and tetrameters)
Thank you dear / Debbie for / pointing out / my mistakes!
Now I can / see where I’ve / been getting / out of step.
“Statuesque” / was one of / my early / efforts and
Then I had / not learned the / rhythms of /poetry.
If I were / Writing it / now I’d be / tidier.
I’d know my / dactyls and / iambs and / … other stuff …
But since the / subject was / utterly / frivolous,
Frankly Ms. / Guzzi, I / don’t think I / give a damn!
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I thought my original entry in Debbie’s meter contest was in
dactylic tetrameters.
Sadly it was not – but this one is!
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