You wax
I wane
your ecstasy
is my pain
my loss
is your gain
and your ease
becomes my strain
My silence
your phrase
you curse
while I praise
Your clarity
is my haze
your map
my maze
and my ashes
ignite your blaze
The prompt for today is to write a quadrille, 44 words exactly, including the word blaze at dVerse Poets’ Pub: https://dversepoets.com/2024/04/29/quadrille-200/
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Nicely done! I enjoyed the ease of rhythm and rhyme. Stark contrasts indeed.
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The short tight phrases worked really well for this.
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I love those rhyming contrasts, though it seems like a very destructive relations.
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Like wonderful staccato notes on a piece of sheet music!! Love your quadrille.
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the seesaw of this is really gripping. Perhaps lose the is and ands? The rhyme are also powerful. A great write
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That would tighten it up. I was too conscious of getting 44 words, perhaps. Thanks.
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Wowzers… that sounds like an unhealthy relationship, but I loved this poem and its rhythm!
Sincerely,
David
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Haha – thanks!
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Excellently written, Mary! The terse lines so starkly contrasted, and the final lines showing where the toxic relationship is headed work so well.
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