Day #4, Blank Verse

Blank Verse

Blank Verse is Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is often unobtrusive and the iambic pentameter form often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech. William Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse.

Feet in the Stream

Feet dangle in a mountain stream

He laughs and jumps and the

water drops float like crystal in the air

the breeze smelled sweet, I was beguiled.

I almost kept walking and missed

this moment when his smile was pure

and his laugh unobscured by being too aware of self.

All we could feel was the cool silk of the water

and rounded river stones cobbled together by nature

and the occasional little boy, who rearranges

them for his amusement, while his mother sits and 

watches, adoring him and grateful to God who

took the time to mercifully share this sight with me.