Two Rispettos or One Autumn Poem Entitled Silk-Thread Toll

Today Poetic Bloomings invites us to a write a Rispetto.

A Rispetto, an Italian form of poetry, (Italian:: “respect,” – plural rispetti, a Tuscan folk verse form) is a complete poem of two rhyme quatrains. The meter is usually iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abab ccdd. A Heroic Rispetto is written in Iambic pentameter, usually featuring the same rhyme scheme.

Fretwork of farmer’s field is felled

And fruit from laden leaf-looms culled

Spring’s framework to filled fathoms meld

Bud-promises plucked, pulled and hulled

Mist-trysts on frost-kissed climes amass

Like gilded glints of shattered glass

As glitter of forgotten wars

Bedecks earth’s heath in breath-wreathed stars

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Time’s rubric is resolute, fixed

Season-ilk spirals, silk-thread toll

Of Birth, then death; a life betwixt

Its quantum woven through with Soul

Nothing new waits where Now, newborn

Baits gated brogue of morrow’s morn

Where wonder-lust and laughter-tears

Stirs soldered dust of yesteryears

© Janet Martin