Le Voyage Magnifique

Sacrifices

Our children sacrifice their dreams
when duty screams
of country's need
for those who lead.

The brutal consequence of war
is lots of gore.
When soldiers die,
their mothers cry,

because their kinfolk are bereft
with nothing left
for families
but memories.

Notes on the Minute form of poetry ▶︎

The Minute poem is twelve lines divided into three quatrains, with each stanza having line structure of 8, 4, 4, 4 written in iambic meter. The rhyme scheme is aabb, ccdd, eeff, as described and demonstrated in the following link: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/minute.html .