Love Poem: Wrecked: Dechnad-3
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Written by: Jeff Kyser

Wrecked: Dechnad-3

The sea, you see, we both agree - he’s sure to come ashore The tide is tied to lunacy he does the moon adore You’ve seen his swells, how they arise sighs uttered under breath And when she wanes, comes his demise cries, mourns her cruel death To know and yet to not accept, kept wracked by pitied plight - Love’s lunacy find its precept wrecked in her luscious light
————— Okay, I’ll keep this one - doesn’t seem like the form got in the way… This it probably just me / weird, but I found it easier to think of each stanza as a 14-syllable-per-line couplet... The Dechnad Mor: an Irish quatrain with 8a:6b:8a:6b, 2-syllable end rhymes, cross rhymes, and alliteration https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/dechnad-mor-poetic-forms