A Small Sonnet on Season-change

PAD Challenge day 12: write a form poem
 (here’s a list of 100 poetic forms for reference),
and/or…Write an anti-form poem.

 (Form poem)

Sonnet 14 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, 
which consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet. 
It follows the traditional rhyme scheme of the form: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

A week ago the world was brown...

and leafy-gold...

Now it is wrapped in a sequin blanket white and cold!

(lost camera found!:)

With thousands of acres of corn still standing

it's hard to welcome Old Man Winter with wide-open arms

Beneath starred sweeps and diamond-studded shawls

The garden sleeps; fall’s final flowers fade

Where eiderdown of heaven decks earth’s halls

And rooms beneath our skin are rearranged

In an attempt to adapt to the art

Of constant change that cannot change time’s ways

And all must learn to reconcile the heart

To ordinary ordinance of days

Where we should have emotions well-rehearsed

But somehow still are taken by surprise

Though season-tides have never been reversed

To satisfy the hunger in our eyes

Where hope is always reaching for the moon

And winter always seems to come too soon

© Janet Martin