As I sat beside the driftwood fire wind tousling
my wavy thin grey hair, my thoughts flow, matching rhythm
with gentle waves licking the soft sand, retreating,
repeating again and ever more nature's dance.
All the while, moonbeam light pairs with the fire, a prism
catching light from above and below showering
the distant stretch of shore in soft light, white on white
but, subtle to enhance memories repeating
eves spent 'oft at this time, in this space, flowering
once again, those blissful embraces of times when
spent by your side feeling full of love's sweet nectar
teasingly wet my lips as we gaze at the night.
When sudden, a whisper, that teases me to then
focus on the shift of wind stamp out moonbeam rays
as large clouds shroud the moon and large waves cascade in,
the fire's glow tamps down as strangly the specter
looms above the flickering flame of the red-hot blaze
and the whole scene startles me, which awakens me, toppling
me back to the fire, wind, waves, and this happenstance
this sudden, ghostly guest puts goose bumps on my skin
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Author Notes
Potlatch Club Challenge: Domino Rhyme is a very clever innovation of Bob Newman which can be found at his site as well as many others on the internet. Much like a slinky, rhymes tumble from stanza to stanza, it is something he calls remote rhyming. The Domino Rhyme is:
stanzaic, written in any number of quatrains.
metered, written in a loose tetrameter. Lines should be same length.
rhymed. L2 and L3 of the first stanza rhyme with L1 and L4 of the next stanza and so on down until the last stanza when L2 and L3 rhyme with L1 and L4 of the first stanza. abcd befc eghf gijh . . . iadj.
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