The Poetic Musings of Dawn

ae freslighe (#36)

Bereft

Sullen, choking endearment
wretched solitude escaping
within, raising malcontent
from empty love, now collapsing.

Hurt emotions eternal,
empty and full of regret,
unable to find internal
truth, wanting to forget.

Burns deep against damnation;
hellfire, around the fallen,
enflames sinful temptation
unto barren souls, sullen.


Ae Freslighe
"This Irish form is not easy. While it is short, you have to keep the little rules for this form, to write it properly.

I hope I can explain it clear…
~ The Ae Freslighe can have more than one stanza.
~ Each stanza is built up out of four lines (a quatrain)
~ Each line has seven syllables.
# Line one and three use a triple rhyme (three syllable rhyme)
# Line two and four use a double rhyme (two syllables)
# You have to end line four with the first syllable word in the first line, or the complete line that you used to begin your poem with.

The scheme:

x x x x (x x a)
x x x x x (x b)
x x x x (x x a)
x x x x x (x b)"