LAST TIME AROUND

You and I beneath a willow tree

True to youth’s impassioned goals. Now three

Decades summon that lost world again –

Decadence and lust spent with my friend.

Dreams of such rich trust and such deep fears;

Schemes we boldly etched through dusty years.

You and I once rode a carousel

Through our passing rites. Hearing the bell –

Its demand to, “Reach the ring of gold!”

Split the shafts of time and light. They told

Lies of love and hope and future’s bright

Skies, before our lives could delve the night.

You and I must seize this fleeting chance

To resume the music and the dance.

by Gay Reiser Cannon

A form created by Hector Gutierrez that he named
Framed Couplets where the first syllable and last syllable
of each couplet rhyme.  Written in iambic pentameter sans the
first unstressed syllable. This is fourteen lines, so perhaps
a kind of sonnet framed couplet.

 Published 12/2011
Willow Tree Press
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