The Poetic Musings of Dawn

pathya vat (#82)

Memory

Drift out in time
hope to see you
there right on cue
in my mind, flash.

Sing our song, please.
Don't let me crash
problems rehash
to stain soft skin.

Soon, I will fall
never to again
feel that sharp pain;
the though of you.


"Pathya Vat.

This form has its origin in Cambodia. It belongs to the family of Than Bauk. Pathya Vat contains four lines of four syllables, the both middle lines rhyme.
Made visual:

xxxa
xxxb
xxxb
xxxc"

"If desired you can make a chain of Pathya Vat stanzas. You have to use the last word of the previous stanza, to rhyme with the second and third line of the next stanza."