Abstract Life

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2010 Poetry



We look at life and wonder why,

thinking we may be dumb.

Colors painted abstract and bright,

hard to comprehend by some.



Seeing things clear needs more than vision,

it may be we need more than sight.

Hard to comprehend by some,

colors painted abstract and bright.



Look with your heart to plainly see,

the shape of that hidden plum.

Colors painted abstract and bright,

hard to comprehend by some.



Then things you may comprehend,

without causing you plight.

Hard to comprehend by some,

colors painted abstract and bright.




Author's Notes/Comments: 


Mirrored Refrain


The Mirrored Refrain is rhyming verse form constructed by Stephanie Repnyek.


The poem is formed by three or more quatrains where two lines within the quatrain
are the "mirrored refrain" or alternating refrain.


The rhyme scheme is as follows: xaBA, xbAB, xaBA, xbAB, etc..


x represents the only lines that do not rhyme within the poem. A and B represent the refrain.

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