Paradelle

First created by Poet Laureate Billy Collins the paradelle was merely a joke; a way of making fun of people who follow poetic forms and sacrifice making sense. None the less the form intriuged me when I read his poem "Paradelle for Susan" that I decided to write my own.


Paradelle About Leaving

I am reminded of a silent moment
I am reminded of a silent moment
Sitting here stuttering the dead ends of days
Sitting here stuttering the dead ends of days
Silent dead days stuttering
"I am here reminded of a moment of the ends."

The endings usually seem formulaic
The endings usually seem formulaic
Acute deja vu the most common complaint
Acute deja vu the most common complaint
The most formulaic deja vu common
The acute endings usually seem complaint.

If one was to reach out past the moment
If one was to reach out past the moment
A vessel driving through the spine of time
A vessel driving through the spine of time
If vessel movement was past time
The one driving out to the spine through a reach.

I, the silent complaint, reach a vessel
Usually of the most acute stuttering
Dead out of time. If the deja vu end
Am one reminded here
The common past was driving the moment
Seem sitting through days of formulaic endings of a spine.

© Matt Elliott 2008. All Rights Reserved.

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And an fyi the paradelle's form is 4 line stanzas with 6 lines. The first 2 lines must be the same. The 3rd and 4rth lines must also be the same as each other. Then the final two lines (to conclude the stanza) must use only the words of the 1st through 4rth lines.
This only applies to the first 3 stanzas.
The final stanza can only use the words in the previous stanzas and nothing else.

As you can see this is pretty ridiculous haha!

Cheers.