Poetry Part II

Between homework, going outside, and playing games with my family, I enjoy relaxing quiet time alone with my guitars. I took it upon myself to learn some acoustic guitar "Classics" from the likes of the Beatles, Eric Clapton, and others. My one minute covers of these classics can be found here under the playlists tab. When I received my prompt for the next week of poetry, being "Consider something that happens over and over again that you enjoy," I planned to write my Terza Rima on my guitar time.

A Terza Rima has an endless form and was used by great writers, such as Dante, to write much longer works of literature than what I will present, such as The Divine Comedy. The tercets follow a rhyme scheme of aba/bcb/cdc/ded/efe... so on and so forth, until the poet decides to end it with a rhyming couplet (two line stanza), rhyming with the second line of the final tercet. In this case we were instructed to write four tercets before our closing couplet. I have chosen to compose my final tercet so that I can repeat my first line in my couplet. As with the Villanelle, it is written in iambic pentameter. 

Time Spent Picking
By Caleb Gottry

Again I find myself on carpet floor. 
I’m holding finished wood; I strike the steel.
I play a song I know I’ve played before.

I am no longer here alone, I feel,
For Eric, Johnny, Paul, and James have come,
Providing songs that make this day ideal.

Unhappy minors that match my glum
Turn into merry melodies anew,
But can one’s mood be changed by simple strums?

Or is it the guitar that shakes the blues,
Providing joy in isolation, or 
A choice instead of boredom that I do.

For being so alone is such a chore,
Again I find myself on carpet floor.