Love... Rekindled ( non rhyming retourne)

by kelleyana   May 21, 2009


Opened up a frail heart to love
with eyes closing doors on despair
dreaming of love to flow like stream
leaving pains beyond existence.

With eyes closing doors on despair
unspoken sound whispers me
come, lets believe in love again,
and its magic of healing pains.

Dreaming of love to flow like stream,
within a fraction of second
pleasant thoughts run across my mind
recreating glad fantasies.

Leaving pains beyond existence
and drown into ocean of bliss,
terminating all glum feelings
and rekindle lost love again.

A Retourne is a French poetry form wherein repetition is used, employed. It consist of four quatrains (four-line stanzas), with each line having eight syllables. The trick is though that the first stanza's second line must also be the second stanza's first line, the first stanza's third line is the third stanza's first, and the first stanza's fourth line is the fourth stanza's first. Retournes can but do not have to rhyme.

collaboration with bhavingr8 aka bugs

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  • 14 years ago

    by Zeus

    I love the structure of the poem.
    "Opened up a frail heart to love
    with eyes closing doors on despair
    dreaming of love to flow like stream
    leaving pains beyond existence."

    I love that stanza.

    Great job. 5/5

  • 14 years ago

    by Robert Gardiner

    Very Nicely Penned!!!

  • 14 years ago

    by Cindy

    Kellyana
    you both did a wonderful job on this form :)
    Take Care
    Cindy

  • 14 years ago

    by Ingrid

    Kelleyana,

    I love this sweet poem by you and Bhavin:)

    It's not easy to make a Retourne, but you two pulled it off:)

    *hugs*

    5/5 Ingrid

  • 14 years ago

    by Sylvia

    Well done. Rekindled love is best because it was true in the first place and just had to take a break. True love always stays, year after, life after life. Good job with the form.

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