Your Love (Etheree style)

Love
your eyes
permeate
embracing me
with that look of love
that I live for, die for
cutting deep into my soul
my slumbering heart, once fallen
awakens to your touch, your embrace
hold me in this moment, forevermore

~*~
08/08/05

The poetry form, Etheree, consists of 10 lines of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 syllables. Etheree can also be reversed and written 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. They can also be written in more more than one verse, as long as they follow suit with an inverted syllable count. Reversed Etheree:  10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Double Etheree: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 9, 8, 7, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 …Triple Etheree, Quadruple Etheree, and so on.

Copyright © 2005 Brenda Barnhart