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| Story ID: | 3826 |
| Written by: | JANET KESSLER POLUDNIAK (bio, link, contact, other stories) |
| Organization: | JUST ME |
| Story type: | Poem |
| Location: | Cayuga NY USA |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Person: | Anyone with a love of poetry who faces frustrations regarding putting feelings into words. |
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This is a Terza Rima poem in Iambic Pentameter, but should be read like prose following the punctuation. The rhyme scheme of a Terza Rima is: a-b-a, b-c-b, c-d-c, d-e-d, and a couplet at the end rhymes with the middle line of the preceeding stanza. There is no line limitation for a Terza Rima. Famous poets have often used this form. For me, it's not so much a love poem as a poem that expresses my inability at times to put what's in my heart on paper or into words. Enjoy. Janet If I Should Speak Copyrighted 2008, Janet K. Poludniak My hand is hovering o’er a virgin page awaiting some expression from my head. I tremble, realizing I’m no sage to write those words so often left unsaid. It’s perilous to wear upon one’s sleeve such feelings; it’s rejection that I dread. If I should speak of love, would she believe that I’m sincere, or think I wish to steal her tender heart—some wicked plot to weave? I wish I had the words to make her feel the depths of love I have, yet fear to speak. I wish they'd manifest, even surreal! This pallid page lays taunting now; and bleak my hopes. They’re buried far beneath fear’s peak. |
