Borrowed Time & Stolen Kisses

DORSIMBRA:  The Dorsimbra, a poetry form created by Eve Braden, Frieda Dorris and Robert Simonton, is a set form of three stanzas of four lines each.  Since the Dorsimbra requires three different sorts of form writing, enjambment can help to achieve fluidity between stanzas, while internal rhymes and near-rhymes can help tie the stanzas together. 

Stanza One:  Four lines of Shakespearean sonnet (iambic pentameter rhymed abab).
Stanza Two:  Four lines of short and snappy free verse.
Stanza Three:  Four lines of iambic pentameter blank verse, where the last line repeats the first line of Stanza One.

Borrowed Time & Stolen Kisses

The moonlight sees the time we spend alone
We lie in sep’rate beds and dream of days
When love will not be spoken, only shown
In ways that always will and do amaze

Borrowed time and stolen kisses –
We hide away in love.
My Love, My World, My Soul –
We live for so much more.

Please don’t leave me all alone in darkness
And shine your light on someone less deserved
I need you here with me you see, but still –
The moonlight sees the time we spend alone.