I like to slow dance with the autumnal leaves,

My eyes oft feast on the kaleidoscopic colors that eventide weaves,

‘Neath the sequined sky I Iay in trance,

With the autumnal leaves I like to slow dance.

 

Passionate verses I pen to the moon at night,

I gyrate with the ecstatic fireflies until midnight,

Waltzing in the elysian woods I dwell forgotten, 

To the moon at night, passionate verses I pen.

 

‘Cause I’m a poet at heart, time moves at my pace,

I sculpt my gilded paths, I’m ne’er in a race,

Meandering across uncharted territories the mortal world I outsmart, 

Time moves at my pace ‘cause I’m a poet at heart

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𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝘁𝘆𝗹𝗲 : 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗽 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻

 

The Swap Quatrain was created by Lorraine M. Kanter.

 

Within the Swap Quatrain each stanza in the poem must be a quatrain (four lines) where the first line is reversed in the fourth line. In addition, line 2 must rhyme with line 1, and line 3 must rhyme with line 4 and so on, BUT not repeat the same rhyming pattern on subsequent stanzas.