
Disenthral: A Deten*
I’ve lived
so happily
inside your own dark world,
without a desire to be freed
really.
I did
tried to break free
against your harsh brute words
but I failed like a wilted seed,
badly.
Mind lead
weak heart fin’lly,
they fought for my own worth
and burned your spell like a wild weed,
I’m free.
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Word Inspiration: Sarah Doughty of Heartstring Eulogies (Thank you, Sarah!)
*The Deten has a unique rhyme scheme. It was created by Johnn Schroeder and can be found at Poetry Base.
The Deten is:
- a 15 line poem made up of 3 cinquains.
- meter at the discretion of the poet. Iambic pentameter is suggested, but tetrameter or sprung rhythm would also work. It might interesting to use the Crapsey Cinquain syllabic frame 2-4-6-8-2.
- rhymed abcab decde fgcfg.