The smell of earth evokes in me,

The distant past, feelings many,

Our first kiss that brewed chemistry.

 

Hands of the clock just seemed to freeze,

Brimming feelings we couldn’t appease,

Enraptured hearts weaved rhapsodies 

How drowned we were in ecstacy!

 

Blissful beneath the sequined sky,

Boundaries we chose to defy,

Floating ‘midst the firmament high,

A forever we wished to see.

 

 

Years have passed, as we count our grays, 

All fond moments mind oft replays,

Our love matured at every phase,

As souls fused for eternity.

 

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Poetry Style : Zejel

The zejel is a very old Spanish poetic form that is also likely an even older Arabic poetic form, which originated somewhere between the ninth and eleventh centuries. It’s believed to have been invented by Mucaddam ben Muafa, a ninth-century Hispano-Muslim poet.

The guidelines:

The first stanza is a tercet (3-line stanza) with an AAA rhyme scheme.

All other stanzas are quatrains (4-line stanzas) with a XXXA rhyme scheme, so the second stanza would be BBBA, the third CCCA, the fourth DDDA, and so on to the end of the poem

Lines are usually 8 syllables long

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This poem written for the monthly poetry contest in September 25 hosted by Penmancy secured the second runner-up position. It was first published here.

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