I’m coming to see you with bated breath
That could be a lie for you and for me death
Some signs revealing what we don’t hope
That now things dropping down the slope
My heart’s thumping, I called my friend Beth
Greek mythology including the Styx and Lethe
As rivers in the underworld causing awful death
Such a pity if we snarl and all these things scope
I’m coming
Come what may, waiting with guarded breath
With humble pie and flowers enwreathe
With shouting and crying like a daily soap
Awkwardly balancing myself in a tightrope
Hoping it’s not like the dance of death
I’m coming*
(c) ladyleemanila 2022
*A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short – a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The other lines are longer (but all of the same metrical length).
For: https://nortinaswriting.com/2022/11/15/morning-inspiration-writing-prompt-no-116/, https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2022/10/16/wordle-574/
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