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Heart’s Reflection



Reflections of your heart upon a page,

resting in the soft bindings of my soul.

My love for you will never truly age.

In this relationship we have our role

as symbiotic as ink on paper.

The two of us as one becoming whole.



We have leaped for joy living our caper,

and will share our love ‘til this story ends.

Our feelings will grow and never taper,

a lasting story to excite our friends.

After death takes us we will not worry,

because a love as ours surly transcends.



Through the years we’ve had no need to hurry,

enjoying our life as in a flurry.




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The Terza Rima Sonnet


Another hybrid of two forms. The Terza Rima is an Italian form, used most famously by Dante. It is a 3-line stanza, or tercet, of interlocking rhymes. The 2nd line of each stanza rhyming with the 1st and 3rd lines of the following stanza. As with a Rubaiyat this form lends itself easily into Sonnet form, as the 2nd line of the final tercet becomes the rhyme for the concluding couplet. As with most interlocking and alternating variations there is no discernable volta, but the couplet can provide a useful summation. In the example below the couplet is an Alexandrine (12 syllable line), but this was just poetic license, and it not a part of the form. The rhyme scheme is a,b,a, b,c,b, c,d,c, d,e,d, e,e.

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