For Just One Day

by damommy

For just one day, I’d like to fly

with eagles ‘cross a golden sky,

a silhouette on setting sun,

back to my nest when I was done

to watch the swallows swooping by.

On pirate ships, with glass I’d spy

an isle where chests of treasures lie,

and give it all to those with none

. . . for just one day.

At eventide, I’d hear the cry

of whippoorwills’ sweet lullabye.

The time’d seem short, hardly begun,

before the sands of time had run.

All this I wish before I die

. . . for just one day.

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2019

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).

Club entry for the "Rondeau--week of 11-29-2019" event in "The Potlatch Poetry Club". Locate a writing club.

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For Just One Day

by damommy

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