a lifetime spent searching in vain;
for beauty in countless places,
in the lines of strangers' faces;
twisted harshly with lines of pain...
a lifetime bound in unseen chains;
plaintive questions, mild innocence...
hope twinkles in eyes limitless...
the chains drag her soul above;
where her fate designs stairs to love,
which she shall take, no penitence...
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©AmaliaAbbar16052019
The version of Decima, popular in Puerto Rico, is a 10-liner with 8 syllables per line in the rhyme pattern ABBAACCDDC.
P.S. If only... I didn't lose myself to occasional bouts of writer's block. And a disease called Writenonsensia.
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Vermillion
PoetryI have been surviving the past few years, counting on my hands, the days taking me, to the impending end. I will not. I will not sacrifice my hands anymore for something so sacrilegious. I color my hands with Vermillion, rub the pages of my noteboo...
