Virus
Summer solstice, lethargic and warm
Lazy days spent in rest
Humid and still, portent of a storm
Riding the heat wave’s crest.
Thunder and lightning, winds from the west
jagged streaks light the sky
a daunting and garrulous tempest
no creature dare defy.
Inundations of rain from up high
the sky above is rent
heaven’s seemingly livid outcry
portrays wicked intent
With an enraged howl nature does vent
loosing furious ire
humanity’s toxins caused torment
mankind’s lease has expired
Surge of lightning the world is afire
quakes rock the earth’s great plain
up in the hills, a funeral pyre
in vales torrents of rain.
Humanity’s prayers offered in vain
nature exacts it’s toll
fragments of earth destroyed with disdain
payment obtained in full.
Exposing at last a bitter soul
from man the earth is wrest
nature take’s back the world as a whole
the virus now suppressed.
This poem is a Virelay.
The virelay is a poem that is written in Quatrains.
There is a rhyme scheme, but no fixed meter.
The rhyme scheme of the virelay is interlinked, thus:
a/b/a/b
b/c/b/c
c/d/c/d
d/e/d/e
e/f/e/f
z/b/z/b
By Mauraya
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