Natural Highs

Whilst on our mini break last week I took the time to experiment with some poetic forms. It is always fun to take on a challenge and today’s Rimas Dissolutas was just that. Here are a few words about this form:

Originally French. Sylllabic. Lines can be of any single length and there can be any number of lines in a stanza. Lines within a stanza do not rhyme, but corresponding lines in subsequent stanzas do rhyme.

Late Afternoon in Interlaken

There is a glare upon the sprinkled peaks

I gaze with satisfaction at the day

Your fluffy lime-green cushion like the trees

You sink into the valleys of your mind

The pines pop up in picture-perfect strokes

Observing beauty is a sacred act

It’s comfortable to sit and not to speak

The silence holds so much we cannot say

We have to snatch the moments calm like these

For being still with self rebirth evokes

I bring the feeling and you bring the facts