Leaves sing water over rocks (Magpie Poem #35)

This week's Magpie Tale visual prompt sparked a Rondeau, which makes me very VERY happy! How I love writing the occasional metrical verse... although I admit I paid less attention to purity than I did to playfulness. *For an explanation of the Rondeau form, read the note following today's poem.*

 

Leaves sing God's song, tune cycles of budding, birth, giving, release,
Autumn golds, ambers, flaming red have forgotten April's sweet peace
Wind rumbles through this drying season, bounding water over rocks
Shorts and sunscreen abandoned in drawers, left for warm wooly socks
She stirs her pumpkin soup dinner and watches the darkness increase - -

The question: When did she last hear the relentless honking of geese?
See the V flying South turn from the grey clouds, pregnant with rain - obese
No need for paper when nature's calendar clicks and turns the clocks
Leaves sing God's song

Ali throws open the cellar door, her smile shouts "Cheers for caprice!"
Kitchen air and floor fills with Maple's and Elm's orange and cerise
Fight between Bob the Cat and Jack the Jay, bird wins with squawks
She gathers the broom, the trash can, the bags before hearing the knocks
Stomping morning's dew from his brawny boots is her love's police
Leaves sing God's song

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A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short - a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The other lines are longer (but all of the same metrical length).

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Comments

[Deborah]

Lovely :o)

[Helen]

Bravo ... this can't be an easy poem form to master!

[willow]

Brava!! These styles are much more difficult than you might think. Well done. I especially like "gray clouds, pregnant with rain".

[Kristen Haskell]

beautiful.

[Lyn]

"Nature's calendar clicks and turns the clocks"..great imagination, and poem!

[Reflections]

Beautifully written, seems a rather difficult form, yet done so well.

Nice magpie.

[Ana]

How fun! I love "No need for paper when nature's calendar clicks and turns the clocks
Leaves sing God's song"!

[alakaline]

Superb! Enjoyed the form and the poem.

[Strummed Words]

Congratulations on using this complex form for your autumn poem. Well done

[Carrie Burtt]

Lovely thoughts in this beautiful piece! :-)