towers | a poem in my pocket

Dark-vowelled smoking columns aspire ruin

as dust-tongued, forested roof caves innavely;

water-spoken island surrenders to timbers

of flamed and lillified heaven-circling pyre.

Aghast of tragedy, fire-dwarfed gargoyles are

hearting a tear-culled Paris in hymnally tone

to dignify bell-voiced ash of towering ages;

above rubble, The King’s cross, power-gilded stands.

Linking to dVerse poetics with Laura Bloomsbury and loving the hyphenate-coined words by poet Dylan Thomas (as featured in my poem).

read names
fell with towers
in flames

hushed speech
pentagon walls
terror’s reach

bells toll
where plane went down
grass knoll

__________

Musette form (by Emily Romano) is a poem of 3 verses of 3 lines each.

First lines have 2 syllables; second lines have 4 syllables, third lines have 2.

Rhyme scheme is a/b/a for first verse; c/d/c for second and e/f/e for third.

a poem in my pocket