It's Still Life

29.07.23 A Duplex Form

A Duplex Poem: Smoke and Ash

Windows open. Breeze skimming through the house,
a song on the radio, don’t know who’s singing it.

Not knowing isn’t not caring. For instance
music that fills me like this skimming breeze.

Music that fills gaps between my heartbeat,
that throb in my neck and ears. Or a voice

that throbs like June heat. It climbs like ivy,
note on note each one a whispering leaf.

Notes. Notes on notes. It’s a forest, some notes.
Phrases. Dreams. Written. Me, on white paper.

I wake. I write. Notebooks. Scraps. Lines on
white paper. My voice of babbling brooks.

One day, I’ll heap them on a fire; adieu
to poems, adieu on a skimming breeze.

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This poem is written for dVerse Poets in Duplex form. Here are the basic components of the Duplex form: 14 Lines, in couplets, 9 to 11 syllables for each line, The second line of each couplet is partially repeated or echoed by the first line of the following couplet. The last line (line 14) echoes the first line. Some artwork is created using Midjourney AI, and is identified as such in the ALT text. Imagery and poems ©Misky 2023.