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„Neon Whispers“ Ein Gedicht von Elise d’Our

„Neon Whispers“

The city hums in golden neon light,
your gaze meets mine—a spark ignites,
my heart beats wild in midnight’s haze.

A fleeting smile—then you are gone,
your shadow lingers in my sight,
the city hums in golden neon light,
your gaze meets mine—a spark ignites.

The streets are singing our refrain,
the air still hums with borrowed time,
but you are fading, won’t remain,
the city hums in golden neon light,
your gaze meets mine—a spark ignites,
my heart beats wild in midnight’s haze.

To my person:

I studied Latin for eight years—verse meters, philosophical treatises, and rather little English. Forgive me for that. At the moment, I have to learn French—a moderate disaster for my poetry…

I found this on the website and participated—please check out the link and take part. Thank you very much!

: https://dversepoets.com/2025/02/20/poetry-form-english-madrical/

Will You Take My Hand? – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon

Hello everyone!  I am excited to share this new poetry form.

The English Madrigal is one of many varieties of the Italian madrigal, an early lyric form that began as a pastoral song. Medieval author and poet Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales) defined the rules of the madrigal in English, which include a number of formal requirements, including meter, end rhyme, and several repeated refrains. Some of the best-regarded English language madrigals are those of Scottish poet William Drummond, who wrote eighty madrigals in his collection Poems (1616).

Key Features of the English Madrigal

Content: Often includes a theme of love

Structure of an English madrigal

*Usually written in iambic pentameter.
*Comprised of three stanzas: a tercet, quatrain, and sestet.
*All three of the lines in the opening tercet are refrains.

Form: A thirteen-line form in three stanzas:
Stanza 1] Tercet -Three lines
Stanza 2] Quatrain – Four lines
Stanza 3] Sestet – Six lines

Rhyme and Refrain

An English Madrigal

[L1] A (refrain 1)
[L2] B1 (refrain 2)
[L3] B2 (refrain 3)

[L4] a
[L5] b
[L6] A (refrain 1)
[L7] B1 (refrain 2)

[L8] a
[L9] b
[L10] b
[L11] A (refrain 1)
[L12] B1 (refrain 2)
[L13] B2 (refrain 3)

Please visit the Great : https://pvcann.com/2025/02/21/will-you-take-my-hand-a-poem-by-paul-vincent-cannon/

20 Gedanken zu “„Neon Whispers“ Ein Gedicht von Elise d’Our”

  2. You are so right about love not ending up at the altar but lingering as a sliding door to an alternative future that may have been – a great write Elise…

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  7. Welcome to the dVerse Poets Pub, Elise, I’m so pleased you joined us with the ‘Neon Whispers’, a delightful madrigal. I love the way you immediately lit up your poem with ‘golden neon light’ in the opening line, and how it continues to illuminate the other stanzas. There is a poignant hint of disappointment in these lines:

    ‘The streets are singing our refrain,
    the air still hums with borrowed time,
    but you are fading, won’t remain’.

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