Stick

Enough 'Stick' poems, I'll have a forest!

Stick


Indelible: the words remain
etched, inked, embedded in my brain
to echo and reverberate:
added heartbeats throb and pulsate
repeated refrain with story poetical—
lost within mobius—wording indelible.

Because we love beyond the pale
See past failings into us. ‘Call
Of the Stick’—it connects us strong—
If for each other—can’t go wrong.
We are stuck tighter than glue: when push becomes shove,
Each other’s other half: Complete because we love



Form: ▶︎

Wrapped Refrain
The Wrapped Refrain, created by Jan Turner, consists of 2 or more stanzas of 6 lines each;
Meter: 8,8,8,8,12,12 and Rhyme Scheme: a,a,b,b,c,c.

Refrain rule: In each stanza, the first 4 syllables (or 4 single-syllable words) in the first line must be the last 4 syllables (or 4 single-syllable words) at the end of the last line.
This is what wraps each stanza with a repeated refrain ...thus, the Wrapped Refrain.