A Celestial Affair (Partenza Represa) Poem by Dawn Slanker

The Partenza Represa is an original form created by Dawn Slanker. It contains any number of four line stanzas which can rhyme or not rhyme depending on preference. The most important features of this form is that it maintains a strict syllable line count of your choosing: 8*6*8*6,8*8*8*8,10*10*10*10...etc. And, each line must begin (anywhere you like) with the last portion of the line before it. Also, it's important to point out that you have the option of either continuing the first line of each stanza with a refrain from the line before it or you may choose to begin an entirely new line for each stanza. (Try one, I think you'll like it :)

A Celestial Affair

As Sol dissolves the blackest shroud…
the blackest shroud, the darkest night.
The darkest night will soon succumb…
succumb to Dawn's auroral light.

Dawn's auroral light refracted…
refracted as prismatic hue…
hue that forms from multi-facets…
facets formed from the morning dew.

Morning dew like gems are gleaming…
are gleaming on Earth Mother's face.
Earth Mother's face in rapture glows…
glows brightly from her love's embrace.

Her love's embrace ascends the sky…
ascends the sky as twelve bells toll.
As twelve bells toll, a gift of life…
a gift of life, Sol's greatest goal.

Sol's greatest goal, to nourish Earth…
to nourish Earth with warmth and light.
Warmth and light will descend forlorn…
descend forlorn into twilight.

Twilight decants his lullaby…
his lullaby will then ignite…
ignite the sky with fiery hues…
hues that foreshadow dying light.

dying light of a Sun a rest…
at rest below the blackest shroud.
The blackest shroud, the darkest night…
the darkest night the Moon endowed.

©2008 Dawn Slanker