As I walk
\nby cricketjeff on July 17, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<\/p>\n
I must walk beside my mistress, on the way to see the moon.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There’s a road beside her castle in the sky.
\nWhen you’ve crossed the bridge of crystal you’ll be there so very soon
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But be sure to ring ahead she’s rather shy.
\nIn the castle we are crossing live the maidens of the night,
\nWho must roam across the milky way to give the stars their light.<\/p>\n
My mistress is a supplicant who’ll ask the moon for love,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She has fallen for a poet’s rhyming words.
\nSo she’s dreamed the magic roadway to her goddess up above
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And she walks beside me singing to the birds.
\nWhen you’ve fallen for a poet there’s so little you can do,
\nJust dream that you can ask the moon to intercede for you.
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\nNow she’s sitting with her goddess, sipping nectar, drinking wine
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And she’s asking that her poet falls for her.
\nThen the goddess tells her kindly just to look out for a sign
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That the rhymer has a heart he can confer.
\nAs I eat the magic grasses that are washed by lunar springs
\nI feel tingling in my backbone where I’m growing mighty wings.
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\nNow my mistress mounts me calmly and I fly her back to bed,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Where her hair is spread like laughter on the sheet.
\nThere’s the song of stars and moonlets softly ringing in her head
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And a feeling that her mission is complete,
\nAnd she wakes up in the morning to a sonnet and a rose,
\nThat were left there by a poet with a lovesong to compose.
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\n Author notes
\nThe picture is a contest prompt and is from
\nhttp:\/\/tn3-1.deviantart.com\/fs30\/300W\/f\/2008\/175\/9\/6\/
\n96d02c863eec8231fb384e2a02652eb7.jpg<\/p>\n
Just a brief note on form, on a suggestion from Sue Cardwell I have separated
\nthe couplets from my ababcc sixaines here to see if that makes the verse appear
\nless intimidating, I would welcome comments on that. I decided I didn’t like
\nit, I have now indented the shorter lines, see how that works.<\/p>\n
The meter is based on what I call “extended ballad measure” (alternating iambic
\nheptameter\/iambic pentameter) save that each line starts with an anapaest
\nrather than an iamb and the couplets consist of a pair of heptameteric lines.<\/p>\n
I’ve used the sixaines a couple of times lately (I borrowed them from
\nShakespeare ) but the exact meter is new to me so comments on that too are
\nespecially welcome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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