April 3, 2022 - Today's prompt is based on a Spanish form called a “glosa” – literally a poem that glosses, or explains, or in some way responds to another poem. The idea is to take a quatrain from a poem that you like, and then write a four-stanza poem that explains or responds to each line of the quatrain, with each of the quatrain’s four lines in turn forming the last line of each stanza.
From Ernest Dowson's - Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam*
Existence Endured
Transient time passes quickly
even swifter as this body ages
I have see plenty, but still ache for more
Another beautiful blossom, another fine bottle
They are not long, the days of wine and roses
even swifter as this body ages
I have see plenty, but still ache for more
Another beautiful blossom, another fine bottle
They are not long, the days of wine and roses
I surge ahead, determined
to savour every single sweet drop
before my taste is taken
and memories become mired in fog
Out of a misty dream
I think of you - recalling
hands that once touched precious petals
powdery soft and delicate
I fleetingly feel your presence
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Lifeless, the soil stiff and solid
naught can take root - the long sleep starts
It will for each of us...eventually
Only fate can decide who will waken from slumber
and who will remain
within a dream
*The brief sum of life forbids us the hope of enduring long
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