HER FUNNY FUNNY FACE
H. W. Bryce
Based on the Rondel
I fell in love with her funny face.
I knew inately that she had been abused
For that, and that she was oft accused
For being different, for being out of pace.
I laughed with delight at that funny face
When first I saw it, yet could see, amused
She was not always, that she had been used.
I knew inately that she had been abused.
Somehow I knew that she had found her space,
Like the clown, funny out, crying in, but disabused
Now of the shame of having been so early badly used,
That she had found the inner spunk and grace
To know with confidence to wear that face.
And so, I fell in love with her funny face.
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This is a rondel, a poetry form of 13 or 14 lines with
Two rhynes and repetition of two lines.
Note: the more famous sonnet has 14 lines, and so,
This, my first rondel, has 14 lines.
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