It is me against the world, painting circles and incessant
shapes as I close my doors, calling you perfect, so quiescent.
Nothing left to lose as I search our attic for brief curses,
unlocking love with gladiola blossoms and cardboard verses.
Me against the world, am I soulless or will breath be my pen?
You entered my faded mind, singing like an enchanted wren
but why now do I believe in perfect illusions from my sin;
me against the world, since when have we become evanescent?
Honesty is expensive yet your fair art still rehearses
memory that maddens, me against the world.... goodbye again.
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Written 8/09/13 @ 6:14 PM
Not sure how I did but this was the hardest challenge by far and tried to do my best... had to edit quite a bit because I kept messing up the rhyme scheme but by that time I already had written most of it and didn't want to start over with another form!
Baby Rainbow's challenge from these random prompts:
unlocking love
perfect
me against the world
perfect illusions
circles
soulless
nothing left to lose
honesty is expensive
goodbye again
*Must be a rhyming form from Shadow Poetry.
*Must be love genre
*Must have me against the world in 4 lines of the poem.
*Must have goodbye again as the closing of the poem.
*Must have unlocking love as the 4th line and the title.
[Form chosen: The CinqTroisDecaLa Rhyme, a form created by Laura Lamarca, consisting of one 10-lined stanza. The rhyme scheme for this form is AABBCCCABC and a syllable count of each line is 15.]
