Day 25:
What I've felt,
What I've known,
Never shined through
In what I've shown.
Metallica - "Unforgiven"
Speechless
New words flayed
From fresh lips
Struck silent
By sounds that
Hurt worse than
Boot or belt.
Stripped of song,
From then on
Only spelt
What I felt.
Swegeha'
We suffered
Whips and straps,
Knuckle raps,
White savior
Undertones.
Silently
Hide away,
Under stone,
What I've known.
Can not become.
I, speechless, drown
In laughter floods
And bitter blood.
Just sink and fade
From jaded view.
Can't seem to sing
What needs be sung.
A trill of true
Never shined through.
Raggedly weep
To the unknown.
Breath out and beam
The wildest dreams,
The primal screams,
Bound up in bone.
May all our songs
Be heard. And may
You find your own
In what I've shown.
ABOUT THIS POETRY FORM
A glosa or glose is a poetry form from Spain 15th century, used by many poets during the Renaissance. It uses a quatrain of another poet for exploration or engagement.
It is a 4 stanza poem
There are 10 lines per stanza, making it a forty line poem.
Find a four line stanza that you like, from another poet.
These borrowed lines are called the cabeza and start the poem.
The last line of each stanza is the corresponding line from the selected poem.
Maintain the connection to the previous text.
Line rhymes: abcdeFghFF, with the final F corresponding to a line in the poem.
Try to keep syllables in each line consistent.
Admission: It took some time to wrap my head around this one. I had to read a few and get a feel for them first. Still not sure if I laid this down rightly but it's done. Took me too long to weave together because it deals with how I lost my voice and am still trying to reclaim it.
Swegeha' (sway-gay-ha): Long ago
