Thus Spake the Quill | Harrisham Rhyme | Poem

Written for Dverse Poet Prompt – To write a poem that is influenced by ceRtain times in your life that made you the poet you are today. I am writing about the days when I was sad and lonely and away from home, it’s during that time that I found solace in words. 

Through cobwebs of memory yonder
hovering down the insipid time
gloom loomed and I used to wonder
might I find peace in these rhymes?
Then my quill-inked words tender
evoking unknown dreams sublime.

Often I stare, beyond Orion far
nurturing a fond solitude, 
grasping for trails of star
grounded by yester’s magnitude
dances my muse, now on stitched scar
steadily on parchment, words commute.  

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And with this I tried another poetry form.   

Poetry Type – Harrisham Rhyme, created by the female poet, Harrisham Minhas, belonging to the State of Punjab in India, of a six-line rhyming stanza. In this form, the last alphabet of the first word of each line is the first alphabet of the first word of next line.

There is no restriction on the starting alphabet of the first line. Rhyming scheme : ababab.  

I wrote a Double Harrisham Rhyme since one stanza wasn’t enough to contain my thoughts