Monday, February 7, 2022

My Tired Heart

Rannaigheacht Ghairid (ron-a'yach cha'r-rid) is an Irish syllabic form with four-line stanzas, three syllables in the first line, seven syllables in each of the next three lines, rhyming aaba, the fourth line's third syllable a cross-rhyme with the end of line three. The poem ends with the same syllable, word, or line as the beginning.

My tired heart
to its wild surprise found art:
brush strokes became its strong beat,
a rare, sweet, true Cupid’s dart.
 
From the start
my felt losses were cut short:
because color is its play
no more gray besets my heart.
 
 

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