Thursday, October 19, 2006

Write a sestina with the following words:

bridge
sugar
blue
swing
fall
leave
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bridge
sugar
blue
swing
fall
leave

leave
bridge
fall
sugar
swing
fall

blue
leave
swing
bridge
sugar
fall


fall
blue
sugar
leave
bridge
swing

swing
fall
bridge
blue
leave
sugar

sugar
swing
leave
fall
blue
bridge

bridge swing
sugar fall
blue leave

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Bridge over Lover's Lane

It was on Lover's Lane bridge
that they first met, just past Sugarloaf
Lake, shimmering in July's blue.
She saw him hanging in the tireswing
dangling, all naked legs, saw him fall
into the dark water, the leave

this world, it was so easy to leave!
She met him shivering on the bridge
after his stupendous fall,
oh he was a hero, her dripping sugar!
He climbed down to the tire swinging
and sailed out across the blue

depths, oh he was a hero!, his blue
lips quivering, she could not leave
this bridge, this trestle, that swaying swing,
she felt naked on that wooden bridge,
she could taste the delicate sugar
of his breath! How could she fall

so far, so full, so quickly? How could she fall
so much in love, lost in the sudden blues?
He was her hero, her glimmering sugar,
no wonder she'd taken leave
of her senses on this rustic bridge!
There was no rescue from this swinging

sight, this naked boy on his sweet swing
like her own sweet singing, his fallen
beauty, she'd lost her wits on this bridge,
there was no escape from the blue
quavering everywhere, she must leave
this frank display, this fine and naked sugar

swinging so alone and wild, this sugar
sweetness lilke maple syrup, this swinging
and swimming ache, her hero! How could she leave
the world just now, how could she fall
back into the world's slipppery blue,
the emptiness of time? This bridge

was her bridge! This swing his swing!
The sugar she tasted a sign of her own fall
not from grace, but a blue star she prayed to leave.

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