Unsure

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2006 Poetry

The cold wind blows through the trees,

leaving the branches bare without leaves.

Snow covered ground barren and pure,

the thought of it all makes me feel so unsure.



For no one knows what lies and waits,

or what the future surely dictates.

Lost in this wilderness makes me feel so obscure,

the thought of it all makes me feel so unsure.



Doubts about life burrow deeply within,

embarrassing enough to make my mind spin.

One day I might find myself a cure,

the thought of it all makes me feel so unsure.


Author's Notes/Comments: 

STYLE: Kyrielle


The distinctive feature of the Kyrielle is that it has a refrain - the final line of every stanza is the same. The name comes from the kyrie, a form of prayer in which each section concludes with the same words: "Kyrie eleison", meaning "Lord have mercy upon us". Repeating whole lines within a poem is sometimes known as rime en kyrielle; this phenomenon is found in quite a number of verse forms.


The verse form called the Kyrielle is usually written in iambic tetrameters, and in 4 line stanzas rhyming aabB

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