mystical mandolins

mystical mandolins
humming violins, sweet
teardrops, from sins fallen
on bare skins, warm cheeks… Led
Zeppelin's songs of love haunt
djinns' magic harmonies


mystical mandolins
14 november, 2006
[2006.14.11…I]

For KansasPoet's November Contest

Author's Note:
For this poem, I have created what I call the Extended Than-Bauk form.
The true Than-Bauk Form is a three line poem with four syllables per line. The staircase rhyming scheme has the fourth syllable in the first line rhyming with the third syllable of the second line and the second syllable of the third line.
x x x A
x x A x
x A x x
I have simply extended this form to six lines, six syllables and six rhymes.

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