FREE AS A BIRD

This simple poem is an abased form of Circlet, in that it is  made up of a decastich, a 10 line poem made up of 2 cinquains, has a rhyme pattern Abcde edcbA and is composed with line 1 repeated as line 10.

I’ve describe it as ‘abased’ because it lacks the traditional syllabic content.

Image by R Kikuo Johnston

QUARANTINE

The sparrow, unconcerned, builds on:

a feather here, a piece of straw,

a supple twig, these things and more

are gathered, carried, knitted tight

inside the wood-box on the wall,

while we sit indoors and recall

how things once were, when we too might,

should we so choose, step out the door

but now it is against the law.

The sparrow, unconcerned, builds on.