My Love’s Travail



My love’s travail

The falling Star chasing the demonic dragon,
Of the Fallon One into depths of ambiguity.
Can one go in just to re-emerge,
On the external inverted co-existence?

‘Tween roses and daffodils,
Can pansies survive?
Are nomenclatures misnomers
That ORChids may thrive?

To dream of the morning,
‘Tween midnight and dawn,
That faeries may glisten
And butterflies yawn.

My love is a sparkle
That gleams in the dew.
As fresh as a rainbow
And unicorn’s mew.

               Douglas Noel
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Submitted by dougnoel on July 27, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme X AXXB XCBC XDAD XEXE
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 483
Words 80
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4

Douglas Noel

Douglas is a published poet who have been accorded several awards for his poetry. He is a former teacher of 40 years the last 13 of which focused on teaching middle school children to write especially using various poetic forms. more…

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  • alanswansea18
    Okay you got me with the roses daffodils and butterflies all the things I love. Good job.
    LikeReply3 months ago

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