Words in Perpetuity

 
Crash like thunder, pour like the rain!
Words unspoken do contain
power to move the lives of men
back and forth and back again
in a dream with mind insane.

Words of truth, though just a grain,
mend a heart or cause it pain.
Righteous words above the din
Crash like thunder!

Evermore will they remain,
voices in the heart and brain,
sounds of battles you did win,
lexis from the place you've been,
harsh words rendered, hurts retained,
Crash like thunder!


Copyright  © 2006 by Karen M. Crump

Published in "Illuminating Shadows - Community of Poets Collection Vol. 5" - 2006

Author's Note: A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short – a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The other lines are longer (but all of the same metrical length).