Exceptional A Rondeau for Potlatch Poetry 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.   Recognized Author Notes 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).

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