A to Z Blogging Challenge: K is for Kyrielle

A to Z Blogging Challenge:

K is for Kyrielle

by

Lily Strange

A Kyrielle is a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains (a stanza consisting of 4 lines), and each quatrain contains a repeating line or phrase as a refrain (usually appearing as the last line of each stanza). Each line within the poem consists of only eight syllables. There is no limit to the amount of stanzas a Kyrielle may have, but three is considered the accepted minimum.

My Bouquet

Some days I sing, some days I cry.

My soul's the one determines why.

Sometimes it laughs, sometimes it mourns.

On my bouquet are many thorns.

Wake up each day, face a dark cloud.

My happiness wrapped in a shroud.

The day begins; to me it scorns.

On my bouquet are many thorns.

Lay down my head, dark nights begun.

With the sad setting of the sun.

From all my sorrows my heart mourns.

On my bouquet are many thorns.

Copyright © 2003 Floria Kelderhouse

Divine Lily

Divine Madness, you plague me so

I wish that you would let me go

I tire of wishing I were dead

Take now yourself from out my head

Divine Madness, of you I tire

You bring me naught but pain and ire

I wish that you would go away

And let me live my life one day

Divine Madness brings me such shame

Though I'm told that I'm not to blame

Thanks to you, I'll never be loved

You're a curse from Heaven above

~Lily

Dedicated to Bipolar Disorder

Here is a list of poetry types, which you may find useful.