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Forever Trapped



Trapped forever behind these sharp barbs of wire,

missing all the love and warmth I desire.

Living alone with her scorn and distaste,

feeling as though I’m just a guy for hire.



Trudging along with my whole life to waste,

put here ago as if I once were placed.

Just picked up and dropped here without consent,

I am stuck here forever as if by paste.



Don’t know why I’m here, don’t know what it meant,

but here I stay as just this kind old gent.

I took those vows and I meant what was said,

so here I have been all these long years spent.



Year after year, and with each one I dread,

stuck here forever to the woman I wed.






Author's Notes/Comments: 

It's only fiction so don't get on my case....lol

The Rubaiyat Sonnet


Once again, a hybrid of two forms. The Rubaiyat lends itself easily into a Sonnet by its linking of rhymes. Composed of three quatrains and a couplet, the 3rd line of each stanza becomes the rhyme for the 1st, 2nd, & 4th line for the following stanza. The concluding couplet simply follows the rhyme of the 3rd line of the 3rd quatrain. No volta is usually present, but the force of the concluding couplet lends itself easily into a summation of the whole. The rhyme scheme is a,a,b,a, b,b,c,b, c,c,d,c, d,d.

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last updated 12 October 2010 - 12:15am
©8 April 2008 - 4:38pm — phil_carcione
15 April 2009 - 9:30am — vilmazab
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this is one poem i can download, print in a card form and give as gift to my trapped forever friends...LOL

a good thing i read the author's comment,
well done...