Crash And Burn. [Terzanelle]

Crash And Burn.

Angel's stood within the fog with secured hands,
Scornfully chanting a tragic lullaby,
Watching her body rust amongst the silver sands.

Decaying stars fell down from the raven sky,
Searing the burning Angel's wretched wings - -
Scornfully chanting a tragic lullaby.

Her scarlet tears plucked at the rotting harp strings,
As the moon faded to ashes; falling from the burning sky,
Searing the burning Angel's wretched wings.

Her shattered heart let out a sorrowful cry,
With tainted nails dragging along the shore line,
As the moon faded to ashes; falling from the burning sky.

Maniacal laughs cracked up and down her broken spine,
Echoing from the Angel's crimson mouths - -
With tainted nails dragging along the shore line.

She drifted away as Ivory Angel's sang her to sleep - -
Watching her body rust amongst the silver sands;
Angel's stood within the fog with secured hands - -
Praying to God; her tattered soul to keep.

© Jenna Elphick
October 17, 2006.

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A Terzanelle is a 19 line poem consisting of five interlocking triplets plus a concluding quatrain in which the first and third lines of the triplet appear as refrains. The middle line of each triplet is a repetent reappearing as the last line of the succeeding triplet with the exception of the next-to-last stanza which appears in the quatrain.

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