Hovering Mistakes {Puente}

** First attempt at the form (ShadowPoetry.com, description at the bottom).

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Remembering her love clouds his mind
and all other thoughts have now vanished
he's still regretting his choices months later
the mistakes he made hover over his head

~they would still be together today~

if she had been good enough for him
he wouldn't have found someone else
grasping his love letters to her heart
with every bit of strength she has left

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** Created by James Rasmusson. The form has three stanzas with the first and third having an equal number of lines and the middle stanza
having only one line which acts as a bridge (puente) between the first and third stanza. The first and third
stanzas convey a related but different element or feeling, as though they were two adjacent territories.
The number of lines in the first and third stanza is the writers choice as is the choice of whether to write
it in free verse or rhyme.

Here's a link if you would like to read more of the description: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/puente.html

Briana Coulter
03.04.09