Looking for Padden Creek

I went looking for Padden Creek
went looking for its mystery
went listening for it to speak
found it has a secret history.

I learned some maps are wrong:
in places I couldn’t hear its song.
For a stretch the creek’s underground,
buried, but always homeward bound.

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Andrew Shattuck McBride
NaPoWriMo 2014 ~ Day 17

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This is my second attempt at a rispetto; my first attempt is buried and languishing in my notes.

According to Robert Lee Brewer, the rispetto is an old Italian poetic form in eight lines with a rhyme scheme a/b/a/b/c/c/d/d.

Thanks to my friend and mentor Judy T. for the September 2013 issue of Writer’s Digest which contains a print version of Brewer’s blog post on the rispetto.

Read Brewer’s “Poetic Asides” blog here.

Whatever form your poetry takes, press on with YOUR writing!