Longing in Rhyme and Rain

Playing with form, the Ghazal.

Longing in Rhyme and Rain

To write of my love for you I first find refrain and rhyme
to place in couplets tortured with pain in rhyme.

Telling how you held me up but could not stay,
in long lines of longing that still maintain a rhyme.

We rode mountain trails and sailed in the Gulf.
Now I sit alone, writing a song of the rain with rhyme.

No more will I hear your voice singing off key ,
my tears blotch the page and stain the rhyme.

I think of you and try to place my heart within the line.
my poem mourns love's loss, slain in rhyme.

Only memories and scribbled notes remain,
I Tinker with wondrous words to strain the rhyme.
                             ~~Judi Van Gorder AKA Tinker

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Winner 3-17-18

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