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If I Should Speak

Story ID:	3826
Written by:	JANET KESSLER POLUDNIAK
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.

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.

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