INFORM POETS – QUINTELLA

This is a Spanish form of five eight syllable (Iambic Tetrameter) lines. The rhyming scheme can vary in presentation ie a.a.b.b.a, a.b.b.a.a. etc but only two consecutive lines may have the same rhyme scheme.

WALT’S EXAMPLE:

 

LAKE ESCAPE

I come to stand upon the shore
the way I’ve done some times before.
At night I’ll sit upon the sand,
and write my verse with pen in hand
beneath the moon and stars galore.

And in the misted sky I take
a glimpse at glints upon the lake,
these stolen moments that we dare
upon this blanket where we share
the passion of the love we make.

(C) Copyright Walter J Wojtanik – 2014

 

LINDA’S QUINTELLA:

 

CALCULATIONS

 

You go about collecting clues,

assuming one plus one makes two,

but sometimes they add up to four

and since you neglect to explore

this possibility you do

not ever learn the truth. Instead,

you just believe what’s in your head,

because you say the pieces fit.

I can no longer look at it

that way because my heart has bled

from that line of thinking. Recall

long ago days when as a small

child you carefully attached

two puzzle pieces you thought matched.

The two fit snug and all in all

looked good but, in the end, weren’t right.

Remember those times and you might

be more careful what you believe.

It is easy to misconceive;

thing are not always black and white.

(C) Copyright Linda Hofke – 2014