In the darkness my beating heart
Sets me apart
From the stillness
My black illness
Lost in a spiral eternal
Night infernal
Must end with morn
Come palid dawn
In the blackness I lie awake
Wait, for daybreak
Must banish night
With sickly light
In response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry Challenge – Daybreak using the poetry form “minute” 3 stanzas of 4 lines each with 8444 syllables and an aabb ccdd eeff rhyming scheme.
https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/poetry-challenge-38-daybreak/
Life is too short to drink bad wine 
It is dark, but it has a classical feel to it. I like it!
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Thanks so much! It is a hard form not to fall into a “jingle” style I think. So glad to have found your challenge. I look forward to it each week now. Thanks again.
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It’s rare you get a ‘dark’ jingle, but I know what you mean about rhyme patterns.
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Oh my goodness, TJ, you’re putting us all to shame as you lead the pack–WOW.
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You are too kind! 🙂
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I speak only the truth :):)
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I have just spent the last 3 days paneling my dining room. Still going! It seemed like a good idea at the time. 😦
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WOW! In future, when one of those “good ideas” comes to mind–might I suggest having a lie down, watch a movie till it goes away? 🙂 🙂
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I have realised that precision carpentry is not my calling. Now all I have to do is hand paint 9 Rennaisance panel inserts and I am finished. 🙂
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Hahahahaha–oh gosh! Lesson learned, eh? The inserts sound lovely, but tricky… I’m sure you’ll look at the finished project/room, and be well-satisfied for your efforts 🙂
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I am about to post a post showing the process with shockingly blurry photos to go with it.
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Oh boy–can’t wait!! 🙂
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