Josie Whitehead’s Poems
(A Kyrielle)
The Kyrielle (KEAR-ee-EL) derives from a medieval French troubador verse pattern originally written in octosyllabic lines (or longer), usually unrhymed, as was the French tradition. As so many French patterns are, it is characterized by much repetition of words and phrases, and each verse ends with the same refrain.
By Josie Whitehead
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Just as this world keeps turning in space –
New children are born to the human race.
Each finds both time for fighting and fun
But all things soon end, as all have begun.
Life passes too quickly, there isn’t a doubt –
With its harvests, famines, floods and drought;
The winters of snow, the summers of sun –
But all things soon end, as all have begun.
Use your time wisely, do the best that you can.
Make life a bit happier for your fellow man.
Your candle flickers, then your life is done –
For all things soon end, as all have begun.
Copyright 2007
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