Cut me a slice!
Modern Life Tableau
Always on the run
Sun hurries across
A horizon that
Looks eerily the
Same every day as
We race to our deaths
~Rose~
The Tableau, a poetry form created by Emily Romano in October of 2008, consists of one or more verses, each having six lines. Each line should have five beats. There is no set rhyme scheme, although rhyme may be present. The title should contain the word tableau.
Since the dictionary states the word tableau means picture or representation, the poem should reflect this. A picture should come to mind as the poem is read.
Graveside Tableau
Sunlight cannot warm
The corpse of the bairn
Who drowned in the loch;
Stoic the father,
Silent the mother,
While a spinster weeps
Copyright © 2008 Emily Romano
Truth! I like the hurried feel of the poem as it describes rushing to the inevitable.
ReplyDeleteWell said, Rose. That sure is what life feels like, all too often.
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