(The décima is a Spanish form of 10 lines - rhymed ABBAACCDDC - in principle of 8 syllables, though the rather relaxed method of counting syllables in Spanish verse means that lines can actually be anything from 6 to 10 syllables. I've just kept to the standard English Iambic pentameter.) <br /> <br />My poems are my children, more or less. <br />I care about them, want them to go far, <br />would like the world to love them as they are. <br />Or would it help if I could maybe dress <br />them in fancy words, improve their accent? Yes, <br />though a judicious measure of sobriety <br />might give my work commendable variety. <br />Alas, they're disadvantaged from the start, <br />these single-parent children of my art, <br />and I can't blame their failings on Society. <br /><br />Paul Hansford<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-poems-d-cima/
