Bury Me
Bury me in the earth
So that I might design of myself a garden
Bury me in the earth
So that I might find within some measure of worth
And the strength to pardon
Myself, so that my grieving heart will not harden
Bury me in the earth
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Heart of Thorns
My heart is crowned with thorns
Loneliness impinges upon my waking hours
My heart is crowned with thorns
Deprived of all nonessential flesh, my soul mourns
In my eyes beauty sours
All I know of love, a vase of vicious flowers
My heart is crowned with thorns
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Very busy day almost no time to write and for some reason I chose to work on a challenging form lol
Both poems are great examples of the form, very well done! 🙂
Thank you this form was not easy for me!
“Bury me in the earth
Myself, so that my grieving heart will not harden.”
Those are powerful words. You’ll have to forgive me, I’m not up on my forms of poetry, so I can’t comment on your writing knowing the form/style/rhyme; I just read it, and judge it on the words, the image they create, and how I feel at the end.
I write in free verse and occasionally a rhyme. (I would rhyme with a box, I would rhyme with a fox with apologies to Dr. Seuss!)
I had a guide I was referring to constantly lol I really have very little awareness of form. Dr. Seuss, Baudelaire, Edgar Allen Poe are fantastic naturally but usually I don’t like rhymes I know that’s blasphemy but I’ve said it lol