Scarred landscape

Day 27: write a “duplex” - a variation on the sonnet, developed by the poet Jericho Brown. Like a typical sonnet, a duplex has fourteen lines. It’s organized into seven, two-line stanzas. The second line of the first stanza is echoed by (but not identical to) the first line of the second stanza, the second line of the second stanza is echoed by (but not identical to) the first line of the third stanza, and so on. The last line of the poem is the same as the first.

Wow! I like a challenge,  and the idea of a new poetic form.  Altered repetition makes the brain work hard, looking backwards and forwards at the same time, much the same as this poem does. 

A scar now sits above the village

Where once grew woodland, densely green. 

On either side, dense woodland still stands tall

Framing the bare brown slash of exposed woodland floor. 

The exposed ground looks bare only from a distance

Look close, underground lie flowers, awoken by sudden light. 

That new light has woken the azure haze of bluebells, 

Bright yellow celandine, white garlic, varied shades of green.

The ground holds the promise of a rainbow of colours,

A hidden palette kept dormant under the trees' tall canopy. 

The once tall canopy is mourned by the villagers

Who can see only an ugly lack, the work of vandals. 

In time, the ugly vandalism will slowly regenerate. Meanwhile

The scar sits high above the village.

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