Never-Changing Hills Poem by Kim Barney

Never-Changing Hills

All day I love to walk among these pines
and smell the fragrance flowing from the trees.
A carpet underneath holds twigs and vines;
I could lie down and take a nap with ease.

no phone interruptions
no highway noise
perfect peace and quiet
swaddled by the breeze

These mountains haven't changed since I was born,
nor in my father's time, or so he said.
I'll stalk these hills until my body quits;
all day I love to walk among these pines.

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This poem took second place in Contest #9 of the 2020 National Federation of State Poetry Societies Contests.

The subject was 'the natural state' and required form was the dorsimbra.

I had never heard of a dorsimbra before, so I had to look it up.
It was invented by three poets who named it after themselves.

Created by Eve Braden, Frieda Dorris and Robert Simonton,
the Dorsimbra is a 12-line poem consisting of

(1) a quatrain of iambic pentameter rhyming abab
(2) a quatrain of 'short and snappy' free verse, and
(3) a quatrain of blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) .
The final (12th) line is the same as the first line.

The poem is published on page 32 of the book
Encore: Prize Poems 2020