9.28.2007

Whiskey Before Breakfast

Watching the sun rise
whiskey before breakfast
time hurries clockwise

yesterday is past
tomorrow--still distant
will these seconds last?

Adamant
these whiskey thoughts
they frighten and enchant

at daybreak, caught
between love and lust
indecision bought

Sweeping up stardust
dreaming of moonshine
in whiskey I trust
this moment is mine


This poem is an example of a terza rima which is an open stanzaic form with interlocking cross-rhyming. The middle line of each stanza forms the outer rhymes of the next stanza. (For example, the rhyme scheme would be aba, bcb, cdc, etc.) When the writer comes to the end of the poem, a fourth line is added to the last stanza to use up the rhyme that would have otherwise gone to the next. This form was used by Dante in his Inferno. My previous terza rima post is entitled 'History.'

7 comments:

Rich Fitzgerald said...

at daybreak, caught
between love and lust
indecision bought


fascinating are the trysts of the mind when combined with pleasant libation.

Memphis said...

All I know are dirty limericks. I used to be good at this stuff, but over the years the dirty limericks are all that remains of my education. Damn Irish!

dc_speaks said...

lol..um you.are.something.else.

this should be included as a sin poem. hahahahaha

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